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Craig Raine

‘The inescapable smoke of her gown’

The senior fellow’s semi-shaven Adam’s apple
shifty on the frayed collar of his check shirt.

Poetry
Granta 103
1st January 2008
Poetry
Granta 103
1st January 2008

Craig Raine

Craig Raine’s Collected Poems 1978–1999 is published by Picador. His most recent book is a critical study, T. S. Eliot, published by Oxford University Press in the UK and the US. He is the editor of Areté, the arts tri-quarterly. ‘How Snow Falls’, published in Granta 100, is the title poem of his most recent collection.

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