Description
| Product ID: | 9781509812400 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Collected Poems |
| Subtitle: | 1958 - 2015 |
| Authors: | Author: Clive James |
| Page Count: | 560 |
| Subjects: | Poetry by individual poets, Poetry by individual poets |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The Collected Poems of one of the most fluent, erudite and profound writers of our age, selected by and with an introduction from the author. <p><b>Spanning fifty years of work, <i>Collected Poems</i> sees Clive James make his own rich selection from across his exceptional career in poetry.</b><br><br>From his debut collection in 1986 to his dazzling achievements in the 2010s, Clive James steadily built his reputation as one of the nation's best-loved and most highly-acclaimed poets. In this selection, made by the author himself, the very best of his talents are on show.<br><br>From his early satires to heart-stopping valedictory poems, Clive James proves himself to be as well suited to the intense demands of the tight lyric as he is to the longer mock-epic. Included is perhaps amongst his finest works, 'Japanese Maple', a poem which became a global sensation upon its publication in the <i>New Yorker</i>.<br><br><i>Collected Poems</i> displays James's fluency and apparently effortless style, his technical skill and thematic scope, his lightly worn erudition and his emotional power; it undoubtedly cements his reputation as one of our most versatile and accomplished writers.<br><br><b>'He will be seen, I think, as one of the most important and influential writers of our time' – Bryan Appleyard, <i>Sunday Times</i><br><br>Clive James</b> (1939–2019) was a broadcaster, critic, poet, memoirist and novelist. His acclaimed poetry includes the collections <i>Sentenced To Life</i> and <i>Injury Time</i> and a translation of Dante's <i>The Divine Comedy</i>, a <i>Sunday Times</i> bestseller. His passion for and knowledge of poetry are distilled in his book of criticism on the subject, <i>Poetry Notebook</i>, and, written in the last year of his life, his personal annotated anthology of favourite poems, <i>The Fire Of Joy</i>. </p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2016-04-21 |
