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,
“... his ‘Letter to Lord Byron’, who declared that you could tell if someone was going to be a poet by considering his love of words. If he found words fascinating – their sounds, their peculiar symmetries and associations, their chimes, rhymes, assonances and quiddities – then he was likely to prove the real thing. If, on the other hand, he regarded ... ”