Craig Raine writes poetry and criticism associated with the late twentieth-century movement often called Martian poetry, which makes familiar objects strange through unexpected description. A Martian Sends a Postcard Home imagines everyday human life from an alien viewpoint, turning books, telephones, rain and domestic habits into puzzles of metaphor. Collections such as A Martian Sends a Postcard Home and Rich use similarly sharp visual comparisons, while later poems become more autobiographical and expansive. Raine has also written criticism on poets and novelists, bringing the same close attention to wording and image into literary argument. His poetry is witty, visual and sometimes deliberately showy, rewarding readers who enjoy metaphor as a form of re-seeing. His work fits contemporary British poetry, Martian poetry and literary criticism, with useful connections to Christopher Reid and other poets interested in defamiliarisation. Read more Less
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