Poetry notebook : 2006-2014 / Clive James.
Publication details: London : Picador, 2014.Description: xviii, 234 pages ; 21 cmISBN:- 9781447269106 (paperback)
- 809.1 23
- PN1136 .J35 2014
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 809.1 JAM | Available | 058923 |
Includes bibliographical references.
Machine generated contents note: pt. I NOTES ON POETRY -- Listening to the Flavour -- Five Favourite Poetry Books -- The Arrow Has Not Two Points -- Meeting MacNeice -- Little Low Heavens -- On a Second Reading -- Poetry Archive Tour -- The Necessary Minimum -- A Deeper Consideration -- Product Placement in Modern Poetry -- Technique's Marginal Centrality -- A. Stretch of Verse -- The Donaghy Negotiation -- There You Come Home -- Interior Music -- pt. II OTHER ARTICLES ABOUT POETRY -- John Updike's Poetic Finality -- Stephen Edgar Stays Perfect -- Poetry Heaven, Election Hell -- Les Murray's Palatial New Shed -- Talking to Posterity: Peter Porter 1929--2010 -- Elegance in Overalls: The American Pastoral of Christian Wiman -- Michael Longley Blends In -- Spectator Diary -- Building the Sound of Sense -- pt. III FINALE TO A NOTEBOOK -- Trumpets at Sunset.
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 entire and threatens never to leave the memory. A committed formalist and an astute commentator, Clive offers close and careful readings of individual poems and poets (from Shakespeare to Larkin, Keats to Pound), and in some case second readings or re-readings late in life - just to be sure he wasn't wrong the first time! Whether discussing technical details of metaphorical creativity or simply praising his five favourite collections of all time, he is never less than captivating. Filled with insight and written with an honest, infectious enthusiasm, Poetry Notebook is the product of over fifty years of writing, reading, translating and thinking about poetry.