Like a row of books by Faber
Peter Porter, 22 January 1987
Other Passports: Poems 1958-1985
by Clive James.
Cape, 221 pp., £9.95, November 1986,0 224 02422 1 Show More
by Clive James.
Cape, 221 pp., £9.95, November 1986,
“... He is more a latterday Metaphysical. Behind his most representative poems I hear the voice of William Empson. ‘Funnelweb’, probably the finest poem he has written, is as hard a nut to crack as many an Empson poem, though it stops short of both the bafflement and authority of ‘Bacchus’. His affection for the language of science, and even more for ... ”