A meditation on death and life from one of our most cherished, critically acclaimed and bestselling writers.
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.
Clive James’s book-length poem The River in the Sky is superb, an
epic lament, written in late life, filled with exact and moving
observations about life and culture. “If my ashes end up in an
hour-glass,” he wrote, “I can go on working.”
*New York Times*
A collection of intellectual agility, playfulness and high
jinks
*Observer, Poetry Books of the Year, 2018*
This ranging poem moves like a river, dawdling sometimes then
opening out into its full force. Clive James is gathering a life
full of event, people, humour and remorse, books and writing: all
now present in the copiousness of memory. It is a book written in
the knowledge that death is coming near. It feels, and
communicates, the pleasures of being alive in your one inimitable
life.
*Gillian Beer*
Clive James delivered another book-length poem from the abyss, The
River in the Sky, defying death again while revealing himself to be
one of the most vital poets writing in English.
*Paris Review*
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