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Captain Moonlight: Rained off at Faber

WELCOME to Poets' Corner. First up, Craig Raine, Fellow of New College, Oxford, founder of the Martian school of exotic metaphor (from his A Martian Sends A Postcard Home) and, for 10 years, poetry editor at Faber & Faber, whose acclaimed list includes such titans of the metre game as Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes.

F & F nurtured, employed and published Raine, including his prose collection, Haydn and the Valve Trumpet (unkindly referred to by some as Blowing Your Own Trumpet). His leading protege, Christopher Reid, is now poetry editor there. Not unnaturally, then, F & F rather expected to be publishing his latest work, History, The Home Movie, an epic novel in verse.

But now, I hear, this ...

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