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Clive James on the art of poetry

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January-February 2015, no. 368

Poetry Notebook 2006–2014 by Clive James

Picador, $32.99 hb, 249 pp

Clive James on the art of poetry

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January-February 2015, no. 368

Poetry ‘cannot be an ark to help us survive the flood’, wrote Zbigniew Herbert in 1948: ‘It has to be our daily bread, an article of primary need.’ Nothing could be more truly said of Clive James’s approach to poetry. His latest assemblage of essays, reviews, and miscellanea, collected over the years that straddle his diagnosis of leukemia, feel necessary as oxygen. There is a quiet restlessness too: a sense of sorting papers into some final order.

Geordie Williamson reviews 'Poetry Notebook 2006–2014' by Clive James

Poetry Notebook 2006–2014

by Clive James

Picador, $32.99 hb, 249 pp

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