The first new collection of poems in ten years from Craig Raine, one of Britain's most influential poets and poetry editors.

Craig Raine was born in 1944 and educated at Exeter College, Oxford. He became editor of Quarto in 1979 and was subsequently Poetry Editor at Faber from 1981 to 1991. He is now a Fellow in English at New College, Oxford, and has been the editor of Aret¿i>, the arts tri-quarterly, since 1999. He is the author of six works of poetry, and his Collected Poems 1978-1999 were published in 2000. His verse drama, 1953 was directed by Patrick Marber at the Almeida Theatre in 1996. He has also produced two collections of literary essays and, most recently a novel, Heartbreak, published by Atlantic Books in 2010.