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“... its omissions are otherwise uninterpretable. If we start presuming that, inter alia, Douglas Dunn, Craig Raine, Christopher Reid, Anne Stevenson, Paul Muldoon, Medbh McGuckian and James Fenton are absent because Davie thinks they play no significant part in this history, then what are we to make of the omissions of J.H. Prynne and Roy Fisher, heroes of ...”

“... and it was certainly a mannerism in the books, but only a fool or a hostile witness – Craig Raine appears to be one or the other – would preen himself for spotting the device and then go on to deny the purposes it served so well. In Edinburgh, where Chatwin attempted a degree in archaeology after leaving Sotheby’s, the ‘metropolitan ...”

“... but received from the poet a flat refusal to accompany him anywhere, ‘even to High Wycombe’. Craig Raine similarly turned down O’Hanlon’s entreaties. In the end he is forced to make do with a photographer friend called Simon Stockton, whose only claim to literary eminence is to have been in the same class at school as Martin Amis. But here ...”

“... To mention the Martians as though they had paved the way for Murray is ridiculous: in this context Craig Raine looks like Cowley alongside Milton. I am not saying that Clive James is all bad. My first instinct was to treat him with the geniality he normally reserves for his subjects. Geniality and ordinariness have always been his great gift to British ...”

“... compares in both its imitability and inimitability to the snap-together phenomenological poetry of Craig Raine. But as Simic’s later poetry, his essays and his memoirs make clear, his ambitions were always larger than the merely playful re-naming of parts: – They’re not really object poems. – What are they then? – They are ...”

“... the Telemachus chapter and ‘Pprrpffrrppfff’ to ‘Pprrpffrrppffff’ in the Sirens chapter, as Craig Raine pretended to think a few weeks ago in the Sunday Times. If you are totally indifferent to misprints, you won’t even consider buying or otherwise consulting the new Ulysses. ‘On the whole,’ ...”

“... This has in part been an accident of literary history: the revival of metaphor in the work of Craig Raine and others has indirectly benefited Redgrove, who seems less indulgent with imagery than he did in the plain-speaking days of the Movement and Group. The contributors to a recent issue of Poetry Review who point out the differences between ...”

“... with ‘lariats and tambourines of rain’ – might have come from the Poetry Editor at Faber, Craig Raine. There’s more Martianism in another Faber debut, Philip Gross’s The Ice Factory. Clogged webs are slack-strung tennis nets; convulvulus, frail horn gramophones for bees – the opening lines assert, pulling out all the stops, but also ...”

“... by Theo’s musicianship – and so on. Daisy’s poetry has been borrowed from McEwan’s friend Craig Raine, and there’s a network of Shakespearean allusions. Writing a densely allusive novel from the point of view of a character who doesn’t get the point of novels lets McEwan have a lot of fun. He also writes acutely about the weird mixture of ...”

“... room for Monty Python but not Geoffrey Hill, or Tony Harrison, or Thom Gunn, or Ted Hughes, or Craig Raine, or James Fenton, or Paul Muldoon, all of whom the Norton squeezes in at the eleventh hour. Ricks, for whom Heaney provides an effective endpoint, is probably right that many anthologies falter with the telltale compression of pages. But the ...”

“... which hopeful new magazines flooded. My first job was on Quarto where I worked for the editor, Craig Raine, on the Alice principle, that he was one and I was all the rest. I remember the literary scene Attallah recalls, a world of long lunches, overflowing ashtrays and the regular run to Gaston’s, the depot where pristine review copies were somewhat ...”

“... of Sylvia Plath (1991), and the schlock movie Sylvia (2003), in which Hughes was played by Daniel Craig and Plath by Gwyneth Paltrow. From the early 1970s more or less until his death Hughes was a major hate figure for those he and his sister, Olwyn, derisively called ‘women’s libbers’, who vilified him as the murderer of a great and courageous feminist ...”

“... pretence and ‘fine feigning’ of art. Again it depends who is doing it, and how good they are. Craig Raine and Christopher Reid are very good indeed, word processors as sensitive as Heaney. Far from being gimmicky, as its detractors imply, this poetry is always extremely clear and direct, and capable at its best of a wide variety of effect. One of the ...”

“... group of writers on a courtesy visit to the USSR, as it then was, in 1988, a party which included Craig Raine, Paul Bailey and Timothy Mo. I don’t remember laughing more on any trip before or since; we were a very silly group, so much so that we often mystified our hosts and sometimes behaved disgracefully. Sue – and I even noticed this in the photo ...”

“... was a feature of the all-male Friday lunches Hitchens used to attend, along with people like Amis, Craig Raine, Mark Boxer, Julian Barnes and others. This seems mainly to have consisted of replacing regular words with slightly or much ruder ones: house becomes ‘sock’ (as it does in Amis’s genuinely funny novel Money), man becomes ‘cunt’ or ...”