Craig Anthony Raine, FRSL is an English poet born in Bishop Auckland, County Durham Along with Christopher Reid, he is the best known exponent of Martian poetry.He taught at Oxford and followed a literary career as book editor for New Review, editor of Quarto, and poetry editor at the New Statesman He became poetry editor at publishers Faber and Faber in 1981, and has been a fellow of New College, Oxford, since 1991, retiring from his post as tutor in June 2010.His works include a number of poetry collections The Onion, Memory 1978 , A Martian Sends a Postcard Home 1979 , A Free Translation 1981 , Rich 1984 , History The Home Movie 1994 , and Clay Whereabouts Unknown 1996 His reviews and essays are collected in two anthologies Haydn and the Valve Trumpet 1990 and In Defence of T S Eliot 2000 A short critical biographical study of Eliot, T S Eliot Image, Text and Context, was published in 2007.