Craig Anthony Raine

Poet

Black and white photo of a bearded man with light skin tone and glasses, sitting on a step in front of bookshelves

Poet and critic. Raine’s poetry is often autobiographical and collections include The Onion, Memory (1978), History: The Home Movie (1994) and, most recently, How Snow Falls (2010). He was awarded a Cholmondeley Award in 1983 and was named Sunday Times Writer of the Year in 1998.

Daily things. Objects
in the museum of ordinary art.

From ‘An Enquiry into Two Inches of Ivory’ in The Onion, Memory (Oxford: OUP, 1978)

But time is tied to the wrist
or kept in a box, ticking with impatience.

From ‘A Martian Sends a Postcard Home’ in A Martian Sends A Postcard Home (Oxford: OUP, 1979)