Product Description

Verse with all the invention of Clive James' prose style, combined with a sense of rhythm, cadence and memorable form that is equally and entirely his own. Following the publication of his 1986 collection, "Other Passports", he has emerged as a prominent poet of his generation, going to publish new works in such mainstream outlets as the TLS, the London Review of Books, the Spectator, the New Yorker and the Australian Book Review, culminating in this updated collection.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #288409 in Books
• Published on: 2003-10-17
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 436 pages

Review
'Clive James is a true poet. Line after line of his has a characteristic personal tone, a kind of end-stopped singingness which is almost independent of what it says' Peter Porter, London Review of Books

About the Author
Clive James is the author of more than twenty books, including verse, novels, collections of essays, literary criticism, television criticism and travel writing, plus three volumes of autobiography, Unreliable Memoirs, Falling Towards England and May Week was in June. His most recent novel was The Silver Castle. As a television performer he has appeared regularly for both the BBC and ITV, most notably as writer and presenter of the Postcard series of travel documentaries. He helped to found the independent television company Watchmaker, and is currently chairman of the Internet enterprise Welcome Stranger. In 1992 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia. He lives in London.