Martian poetry is a label for poems that describe ordinary life as if the speaker were seeing it for the first time, often from a strangely detached or extraterrestrial viewpoint. Associated especially with Craig Raine and other late-20th-century British poets, it uses unexpected metaphors, fresh comparisons, and sharpened observation to make familiar objects seem unfamiliar again.
It is not a fixed poetic form, but a style of seeing and describing.
Example
The kettle muttered in the kitchen
like a small machine learning to breathe,
and the spoon, silver-backed, waited
as if it had arrived from another planet.