In the last book he completed before he died, Clive James offers a personal guide to the poems he found it impossible to forget.
Clive James was the multi-million-copy bestselling author of more than forty books. His poetry collection Sentenced to Life and his translation of Dante's The Divine Comedy were both Sunday Times top ten bestsellers, and his collections of verse were shortlisted for many prizes. In 2012 he was appointed CBE and in 2013 an Officer of the Order of Australia. He died in 2019.
One of the most important and influential writers of our time
*Sunday Times*
Few contemporary critics display the passionate commitment to the
idea of poetry, and to the idea of poetry’s centrality to civilized
life, that James does
*John Banville, New York Review of Books*
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