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Collected Poems, 1978 1999
by
Craig Raine
Craig Raine's first collection, "The Onion, Memory" (1977), could be said to have changed the landscape of contemporary British poetry. This, together with his second, "A Martian Sends a Postcard Home" (1978) established Raine as the founder of the 'Martian' school where the poet forces us to see the most commonplace objects as miraculous.
Raine presented a wholly original...more
Raine presented a wholly original...more
Hardcover, 651 pages
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by Picador USA
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When I first encountered Craig Raine's poetry it was like a homecoming, one of the most exciting moments in my literary youth. Here was someone who seemed to write about the same world that I saw through my eyes - the most commonplace things having a breathless mystery about them. I have since discovered that his approach spawned an entire school of "Martian Poetry" that takes his "A Martian Sends a Postcard Home" as its point of departure into a tour of the most familiar things seen through ali...more
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