Craig Raine — English Poet born on December 03, 1944,

Craig Anthony Raine, FRSL is an English poet. Along with Christopher Reid, he is the best-known exponent of Martian poetry. He was a fellow of New College, Oxford from 1991 to 2010 and is now emeritus professor. He has been the editor of Areté since 1999... (wikipedia)

Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.
The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.