Month: September 2020

Clive James: 'The poems I remember are the milestones marking the journey of my life' 🔗 — _Excerpt:_ What makes great poetry? An exclusive extract from the late critic’s final book The Fire of Joy celebrates the poems he loved most. 📚

'He returned to what he really was': Clive James's daughter on his poetic farewell 🔗 — _Excerpt:_ Ten months before his death last year at the age of 80, Clive James underwent an eight-hour operation to remove a tumour on his face. Already very frail – he had been suffering from leukaemia for a decade – afterwards it took him almost a week to emerge fully into consciousness.