Poetry Notebook: 2006-2014

Second-Hand

Excellent Condition

Clive James is one of our finest critics and best-loved cultural voices. He is also a prize-winning poet.

Since he was first enthralled by the mysterious power of poetry, he has been a dedicated student. In fact, for Clive, poetry has been nothing less than the occupation of a lifetime, and in this book, he presents a distillation of all he's learned about the art form that matters to him most.

With his customary wit, delightfully lucid prose style and wide-ranging knowledge, Clive explains the difference between the innocuous stuff that often passes for poetry today and a real poem: the latter being a work of unity that insists on being heard entirely and threatens never to leave the memory.

Filled with insight and written with honest, infectious enthusiasm, Poetry Notebook is the product of over fifty years of writing, reading, translating and thinking about poetry.