by Clive James
Brrm! Brrm!
The Silver Castle
Verse
Other Passports: Poems 1958–1985
The Book of My Enemy: Collected Verse 1958–2003
Opal Sunset: Selected Poems 1958–2008
Angels Over Elsinore: Collected Verse 2003–2008
Nefertiti in the Flak Tower
Sentenced to Life
Gate of Lilacs
Translation
The Divine Comedy
Criticism
The Metropolitan Critic (new edition, 1994)
Visions Before Midnight
The Crystal Bucket
First Reactions (US)
From the Land of Shadows
Glued to the Box
Snakecharmers in Texas
The Dreaming Swimmer
Fame in the Twentieth Century
On Television
Even As We Speak
Reliable Essays
As of This Writing (US)
The Meaning of Recognition
Cultural Amnesia
The Revolt of the Pendulum
A Point of View
Poetry Notebook
This collection first published 1984 by Jonathan Cape Ltd
This Picador edition published 1985 by Pan Books Ltd
This electronic edition published 2016 by Picador
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ISBN 978-1-5098-3238-5
© The Observer 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983
Introduction © Clive James 1984
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