Begin with the soft smelted upturned heart-shaped mouth made for smiling a smile kept for kindness, tenderness, incapable of malice. Am I going too fast for you? The almond eyes see out through their sleepy epicanthic fold. Trusting and calm, if a flicker from slowness, a further flicker from stupidity. Settled in slow-motion beauty, heart-breaking beauty.

A Free Translation Salamander 1981
Rich Faber and Faber 1984
History: The Home Movie Penguin 1994
Change Prospero Poets 1995
Clay: Whereabouts Unknown Penguin 1996
Collected Poems 1978-1999 Picador 1999
A la recherche du temps perdu Picador 2000
How Snow Falls 2010


Fiction
Heartbreak Atlantic 2010
The Divine Comedy Atlantic 2012


Drama
1953: A Version of Racine's Andromaque Faber and Faber 1990


Libretto
The Electrification of the Soviet Union Faber and Faber 1986 opera by Nigel Osborne
Atonement opera based on Ian McEwan's novel music by Michael Berkeley 2013


Criticism
Haydn and the Valve Trumpet Faber and Faber 1990
In Defence of T. His father was a boxer who twice fought for England before working as a bomb armourer for the RAF until his early retirement from epilepsy. Eliot: Image Text and Context Oxford University Press 2007


As editor
A Choice of Kipling's Prose Faber and Faber 1987
Rudyard Kipling: Selected Poems Penguin 1992
New Writing 7 (co-editor) Vintage 1998.

Craig Anthony Raine FRSL (born 3 December 1944) is an English poet born in Bishop Auckland County Durham. He has been the editor of Areté since 1999.