The effective impact of Craig Raine on contemporary British poetry may be dated roughly from summer 1977, when his poem "Flying to Belfast, 1977" took first prize in the Cheltenham Festival Poetry Competition and Raine began an eighteen-month stint as...

The poet, playwright and literary critic Craig Raine (left) is Fellow in English at New College, Oxford. He was born in County Durham and won a scholarship to Oxford, where he has lived and worked since. Now 58, he is married to Ann Pasternak...

I heard Craig Raine interviewed on the radio about this book. (1) Didn't he feel, he was asked, that his often abrasive dismissals of fellow critics ("execrable," "stupid") lowered the standards of academic writing? His answer was contemptuous: "Yeah, but who reads academic...

In the following essay, Forceville discusses the imagery of selected poems from A Martian Sends a Postcard Home, focusing particularly on the implications of Raine's metaphors and similes.

In the following essay, Hulse provides an overview of the so-called "Martian" poets, discussing the different emphases on imagery and narrative technique of individual members.

In the following interview, Raine discusses Martianism, the evolution of his poetry, his audience, poetic technique, and literary influences.