Craig Raine, subject of this issue's feature, is the author of three volumes of poems as well as the libretto for an opera, The Electrification of the Soviet Union, which received its world premiere at Glyndebourne in October, 1987, under the direction of Peter Sellars, with music by Nigel Osborne. In January, 1988, Jonathan Miller will produce Raine's "1953," a version of Racine's Andromaque, at London's Old Vic.