RAINE, Craig

RAINE, Craig
(1944-)
   UK poet, whose first book, TheOnion, Memory (coll 1978 chap), demonstrated his capacity to illuminate theworld through estranged metaphors, a technique which came to full fruition in A Martian Sends a Postcard Home(coll 1979 chap), the title poemof which represents analien's tabula rasa vision ofnormal human activities, and which has come for many to represent an angle of perceptioncentral to good sf (and fatally missing from routine work).His libretto for an opera by CharlesOsborne, The Electrification of the Soviet Union(1986 chap) issomewhat fantasticated; and "1953": A Version of Racine'sAndromache(1990 chap) is a HITLER WINS tale in play form,set in an Italy which, now ruled by Mussolini's son, has conquered England,bombing London flat inthe process.
   JC

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