Collected Poems

1958 - 2015

Clive James

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Picador
26 April 2016

Poetry; Poetry by individual poets

"The ""technically and emotionally heart-stopping poems"" (Spectator) of Clive James are collected in this decades-spanning volume.

Clive James's reputation as a poet has become impossible to ignore.

His recent poems looking back over his extraordinarily rich life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty, such as 'Japanese Maple' (first published in the New Yorker in 2014), became global news events upon their publication. His most recent collection, Sentenced to Life, was a phenomenal bestseller in the UK and in Australia, and his translation of Dante's The Divine Comedy was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller in 2013.

In this book, James makes his own rich selection from over fifty years' work in verse: from his early satires to these heart-stopping valedictory poems, he proves himself to be as well suited to the intense demands of the tight lyric as he is to the longer mock-epic. Collected Poems displays James's fluency and apparently effortless style, his technical skill and thematic scope, his lightly worn erudition and his emotional power; it will undoubtedly cement his reputation as one of the most versatile and accomplished of contemporary writers.

MORE PRAISE FOR CLIVE JAMES

""James writes with exquisite perception and surgical precision; he is a poet of powerful argument and emotional force"" The Times

""After writing poems for 50 years, his technique is deft and assured"" Independent on Saturday

""A writer whose commanding voice contains a constant variety of colour and tone"" Observer"

By: Clive James
Imprint: Picador
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Main Market Ed.
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 46mm
Weight: 1.025kg
ISBN: 9781509812400
ISBN 10: 1509812407
Pages: 560
Publication Date: 26 April 2016
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Clive James is 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 have been shortlisted for many prizes. In 2012 he was appointed CBE and in 2013 an Officer of the Order of Australia.

Reviews for Collected Poems: 1958 - 2015

James writes with exquisite perception and surgical precision; he is a poet of powerful argument and emotional force The Times A writer whose commanding voice contains a constant variety of colour and tone -- Robert McCrum Observer After writing poems for 50 years, his technique is deft and assured Independent on Saturday He is a unique figure, a straddler of genres and a bridger of the gaps between high and low culture. He will be seen, I think, as one of the most important and influential writers of our time -- Bryan Appleyard Sunday Times