Clive James

In the LRB Archive:

• Poem: ‘Lock Me Away’ · 22 September 2005

• Poem: ‘The Zero Pilot’ · 5 February 2004

• Poem: ‘Where the Sea Meets the Desert’ · 31 October 2002

• Say thank you: Witty Words in Pretty Mouths · 23 May 2002

  • Fast-Talking Dames by Maria DiBattista

• Poem: ‘The Eternity Man’ · 20 July 1995

• Bullshit and Beyond · 18 February 1988

  • The Road to Botany Bay by Paul Carter
  • The Oxford History of Australia. Vol. IV: 1901-1942 by Stuart Macintyre
  • The Archibald Paradox: A Strange Case of Authorship by Sylvia Lawson
  • The Lucky Country Revisited by Donald Horne

• Poem: ‘Last night the sea dreamed it was Greta Scacchi’ · 18 February 1988

• Poem: ‘Bring me the sweat of Gabriela Sabatini’ · 17 September 1987

• Poem: ‘The Light Well’ · 23 July 1987

• Poem: ‘Jet-Lag in Tokyo’ · 21 May 1987

• Poem: ‘Go back to the opal sunset’ · 19 February 1987

• Poem: ‘Clive James gives his regards to Sydney’ · 8 May 1986

• Poem: ‘A Valediction for Philip Larkin’ · 6 February 1986

• Clive James writes about literary magazines · 7 November 1985

  • London Reviews edited by Nicholas Spice
  • The New Review Anthology edited by Ian Hamilton
  • Night and Day edited by Christopher Hawtree, by Graham Greene
  • Lilliput goes to war edited by Kaye Webb
  • Penguin New Writing: 1940-1950 edited by John Lehmann and Roy Fuller

• Poem: ‘Sack Artist’ · 18 July 1985

• Lord’s Day · 7 February 1985

• Poem: ‘Echo echo echo’ · 20 December 1984

• Poem: ‘Reflections on a Cardboard Box’ · 6 September 1984

• Poem: ‘A Gesture towards James Joyce’ · 5 July 1984

• Poem: ‘The Philosophical Phallus’ · 3 May 1984

• Poem: ‘Funnelweb’ · 5 April 1984

• Poem: ‘Johnny Weissmuller dead in Acapulco’ · 1 March 1984

• Poem: ‘Will those responsible come forward?’ · 19 January 1984

• Approximately in the vicinity of Barry Humphries · 6 October 1983

• Boys will be girls · 1 September 1983

  • Footlights! A Hundred Years of Cambridge Comedy by Robert Hewison

• Poem: ‘The book of my enemy has been remaindered’ · 2 June 1983

• On the library coffee-table · 17 March 1983

  • An Illustrated History of Interior Decoration by Mario Praz, translated by William Weaver
  • Degas by Keith Roberts
  • Monet at Argenteuil by Paul Tucker

• How Montale earned his living · 17 February 1983

  • The Second Life of Art: Selected Essays of Eugenio Montale translated by Jonathan Galassi
  • Prime alla Scala by Eugenio Montale
  • Eugenio Montale’s Poetry: A Dream in Reason’s Presence by Glauco Cambon

• Diary · 10 January 1983

• Diary · 21 October 1982

• Poem: ‘Godfrey in Paradise’ · 2 September 1982

• Diary · 19 August 1982

• Australia’s Nineties · 15 July 1982

  • Christopher Brennan: A Critical Biography by Axel Clark

• Diary · 20 May 1982

• Diary · 18 March 1982

• Mrs Stitch in Time · 4 February 1982

  • Lady Diana Cooper by Philip Ziegler

• Poem: ‘An Address to the Nation’ · 17 December 1981

• A Dream in the Presence of Reason · 15 October 1981

  • L’opera in versi by Eugenio Montale, edited by Rosanna Bettarini and Gianfranco Contini
  • Xenia and Motets by Eugenio Montale, translated by Kate Hughes
  • The Man I Pretend to Be: The Colloquies and Selected Poems of Guido Gozzano edited by Michael Palma

• Poem: ‘To Craig Raine: A Letter from Biarritz’ · 1 October 1981

• Malcolm and the Masses · 5 February 1981

  • Malcolm Muggeridge: A Life by Ian Hunter

• Poem: ‘To Anthony Thwaite at Fifty’ · 4 December 1980

• Wild about Misia · 4 September 1980

  • Misia by Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale

• Poem: ‘The Supreme Farewell of Handkerchiefs’ · 21 August 1980

• A Blizzard of Tiny Kisses · 5 June 1980

  • Princess Daisy by Judith Krantz

• These Staggering Questions · 3 April 1980

  • Critical Understanding by Wayne Booth

• Poem: ‘Thoughts on Feeling Carbon-Dated’ · 24 January 1980

• Catacomb Graffiti · 20 December 1979

  • Poems and Journeys by Charles Johnston
  • Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin, translated by Charles Johnston

• Bernard Levin: Book Two · 6 December 1979

  • Taking Sides by Bernard Levin

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