Collected Poems, 1978-1999

By Craig Raine

Format: Hardback

Published by: Picador (2000)

ISBN: 9780330375733

Condition: Fine. Dust jacket unclipped..

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 view of the modern world further broadened by publication of Rich (1984) and his epic verse in Everyman’s Library History the Home Movie (1994) where the poet illuminates the details of daily lives. This was followed by Clay. Whereabouts Unknown in 1996. The Collected Poems confirms Raine as one of the most influential poets to have emerged in Britain since the war.