Great Regulars: Craig Raine's first poetry collection

in over 10 years is packed with his love of detail and acerbic precision. There are vivid adaptations from Pasternak, there are varied narratives such as "High Table" and "Rashomon", but the book is dominated by two major elegiac sequences--"I Remember my Mother Dying" and "A la recherche du temps perdu" (the latter about the death of a former lover from Aids).

from Charles Bainbridge: The Guardian: Poetry in brief: How Snow Falls by Craig Raine and The Night Post: A New Selection by Matthew Sweeney--review

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