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vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div style="display:inline;" class="fn">Clive James</div><br /><div class="honorific-suffix" style="display:inline;font-size: 77%; font-weight: normal;"><span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 100;"><a href="/wiki/Honorary_Officer_of_the_Order_of_Australia" class="mw-redirect" title="Honorary Officer of the Order of Australia">AO</a></span>&#32;<span style="font-size: 100;"><a href="/wiki/Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Commander of the Order of the British Empire">CBE</a></span>&#32;<span style="font-size: 100;"><a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society_of_Literature" class="mw-redirect" title="Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature">FRSL</a></span></span></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Clive_James.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="James in 2008"><img alt="James in 2008" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0a/Clive_James.jpg/220px-Clive_James.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="204" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0a/Clive_James.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="278" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:1.4em;">James in 2008</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Born</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">Vivian Leopold James<br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1939-10-07</span>)</span>7 October 1939<br /><a href="/wiki/Kogarah,_New_South_Wales" title="Kogarah, New South Wales">Kogarah, New South Wales</a>, Australia</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Died</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">24 November 2019<span style="display:none">(2019-11-24)</span> (aged&#160;80)<br /><a href="/wiki/Cambridge" title="Cambridge">Cambridge</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cambridgeshire" title="Cambridgeshire">Cambridgeshire</a>, England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role" style="line-height:1.4em;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output 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padding-right:0.65em;">Alma&#160;mater</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/University_of_Sydney" title="University of Sydney">University of Sydney</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Pembroke_College,_Cambridge" title="Pembroke College, Cambridge">Pembroke College, Cambridge</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Notable works</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><i><a href="/wiki/Unreliable_Memoirs" title="Unreliable Memoirs">Unreliable Memoirs</a></i> <br /> <i><a href="/wiki/Cultural_Amnesia_(book)" title="Cultural Amnesia (book)">Cultural Amnesia</a></i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Notable awards</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Philip_Hodgins" title="Philip Hodgins">Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal for Literature</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;">Prudence Shaw</div>&#32;<div style="display:inline-block;">&#8203;</div>&#40;<abbr title="married">m.</abbr>&#160;1968&#41;<wbr />&#8203;</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Children</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">2 (including <a href="/wiki/Claerwen_James" title="Claerwen James">Claerwen James</a>)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Website</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://clivejames.com">clivejames<wbr />.com</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Clive James</b> <span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="/wiki/Honorary_Officer_of_the_Order_of_Australia" class="mw-redirect" title="Honorary Officer of the Order of Australia">AO</a></span>&#32;<span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="/wiki/Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Commander of the Order of the British Empire">CBE</a></span>&#32;<span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society_of_Literature" class="mw-redirect" title="Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature">FRSL</a></span></span> (born <b>Vivian Leopold James</b>; 7 October 1939 – 24 November 2019) was an Australian critic, <a href="/wiki/Journalist" title="Journalist">journalist</a>, broadcaster, writer and lyricist who lived and worked in the United Kingdom from 1962 until his death in 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-McCrum_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McCrum-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ABCobit_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ABCobit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He began his career specialising in literary criticism before becoming television critic for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Observer" title="The Observer">The Observer</a></i> in 1972, where he made his name for his wry, <a href="/wiki/Deadpan" title="Deadpan">deadpan</a> humour. </p><p>During this period, he earned an independent reputation as a poet and <a href="/wiki/Satire" title="Satire">satirist</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He achieved mainstream success in the UK first as a writer for television, and eventually as the lead in his own programmes, including <i><a href="/wiki/...on_Television" title="...on Television">...on Television</a></i>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clive_James&amp;action=edit&amp;section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>James was born Vivian Leopold James in <a href="/wiki/Kogarah" class="mw-redirect" title="Kogarah">Kogarah</a>, a southern suburb of <a href="/wiki/Sydney" title="Sydney">Sydney</a>. He was allowed to change his name as a child because "after <a href="/wiki/Vivien_Leigh" title="Vivien Leigh">Vivien Leigh</a> played <a href="/wiki/Scarlett_O%27Hara" title="Scarlett O&#39;Hara">Scarlett O'Hara</a> the name became irrevocably a girl's name no matter how you spelled it".<sup id="cite_ref-James,_C._1981,_p.29_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-James,_C._1981,_p.29-4"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He chose "Clive", the name of <a href="/wiki/Tyrone_Power" title="Tyrone Power">Tyrone Power</a>'s character in the 1942 film <i><a href="/wiki/This_Above_All_(film)" title="This Above All (film)">This Above All</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>James' father, Albert Arthur James, was taken prisoner by the Japanese during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>. Although he survived the <a href="/wiki/Prisoner-of-war_camp" title="Prisoner-of-war camp">prisoner-of-war camp</a>, he died when the American <a href="/wiki/B-24" class="mw-redirect" title="B-24">B-24</a> carrying him and other freed Allied POWs ran into the tail of a typhoon en route from Okinawa to Manila, and crashed into the mountains of southeastern Taiwan.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He was buried at <a href="/wiki/Sai_Wan_War_Cemetery" title="Sai Wan War Cemetery">Sai Wan War Cemetery</a> in <a href="/wiki/British_Hong_Kong" title="British Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian_obituary_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian_obituary-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> James would later state that his life's works originated in his father's death.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>James, an only child, was brought up by his mother (Minora May, née Darke), a factory worker, in the Sydney suburbs of Kogarah and <a href="/wiki/Jannali" title="Jannali">Jannali</a>, living some years with his English maternal grandfather.<sup id="cite_ref-Aitkenhead_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Aitkenhead-9"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-James,_C._1981,_p.29_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-James,_C._1981,_p.29-4"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>He was educated at <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Technical_High_School" title="Sydney Technical High School">Sydney Technical High School</a> (despite winning a <a href="/wiki/Bursary" title="Bursary">bursary award</a> to <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Boys_High_School" title="Sydney Boys High School">Sydney Boys High School</a>) and the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Sydney" title="University of Sydney">University of Sydney</a>, where he read English and Psychology from 1957 to 1960, and became associated with the <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Push" title="Sydney Push">Sydney Push</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Libertarian" class="mw-redirect" title="Libertarian">libertarian</a> intellectual subculture. At university, he contributed to the student newspaper, <i><a href="/wiki/Honi_Soit" title="Honi Soit">Honi Soit</a></i> and directed the annual <a href="/wiki/Sydney_University_Dramatic_Society" title="Sydney University Dramatic Society">students' union revue</a>. He graduated with a <a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">Bachelor of Arts</a> with Honours in English in 1961. After graduation, James worked for a year as an assistant editor for the magazine page at <i><a href="/wiki/The_Sydney_Morning_Herald" title="The Sydney Morning Herald">The Sydney Morning Herald</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian_obituary_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian_obituary-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1962, James emigrated to Britain, which became his home for the rest of his life.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> During his first three years in London, he shared a flat with the Australian film director <a href="/wiki/Bruce_Beresford" title="Bruce Beresford">Bruce Beresford</a> (disguised as "Dave Dalziel" in the first three volumes of James's memoirs), was a neighbour of Australian artist <a href="/wiki/Brett_Whiteley" title="Brett Whiteley">Brett Whiteley</a>, became acquainted with <a href="/wiki/Barry_Humphries" title="Barry Humphries">Barry Humphries</a> (disguised as "Bruce Jennings") and had a variety of occasionally disastrous short-term jobs: sheet metal worker, library assistant, photo archivist and market researcher.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Guardian_obituary_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian_obituary-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>During one summer holiday, he worked as a circus <a href="/wiki/Roustabout#Other_employment" title="Roustabout">roustabout</a> to save enough money to travel to <a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> His contemporaries at Cambridge included <a href="/wiki/Germaine_Greer" title="Germaine Greer">Germaine Greer</a> (known as "Romaine Rand" in the first three volumes of his memoirs), <a href="/wiki/Simon_Schama" title="Simon Schama">Simon Schama</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eric_Idle" title="Eric Idle">Eric Idle</a>. Having, he claimed, scrupulously avoided reading any of the course material (but having read widely otherwise in English and foreign literature), James graduated with a <a href="/wiki/British_undergraduate_degree_classification#Degree_classification" title="British undergraduate degree classification">2:1</a>—better than he had expected—and began a PhD thesis on <a href="/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley" title="Percy Bysshe Shelley">Percy Bysshe Shelley</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian_obituary_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian_obituary-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clive_James&amp;action=edit&amp;section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Critic_and_essayist">Critic and essayist</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clive_James&amp;action=edit&amp;section=3" title="Edit section: Critic and essayist"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>James became the television critic for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Observer" title="The Observer">The Observer</a></i> in 1972, remaining in the role until 1982.<sup id="cite_ref-Aitkenhead_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Aitkenhead-9"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Mark_Lawson" title="Mark Lawson">Mark Lawson</a> described a James review as "so funny it was dangerous to read while holding a hot drink".<sup id="cite_ref-BBC_obituary_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBC_obituary-15"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He was at times merciless and selections from the column were published in three books – <i><a href="/wiki/Visions_Before_Midnight" title="Visions Before Midnight">Visions Before Midnight</a></i>, <i>The Crystal Bucket</i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Glued_to_the_Box" title="Glued to the Box">Glued to the Box</a></i> – and finally in a compendium, <i>On Television</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He wrote literary criticism for newspapers, magazines and periodicals in Britain, Australia and the United States, including, among many others, the <i><a href="/wiki/Australian_Book_Review" title="Australian Book Review">Australian Book Review</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Monthly" title="The Monthly">The Monthly</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Atlantic" title="The Atlantic">The Atlantic</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Review_of_Books" title="The New York Review of Books">The New York Review of Books</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Liberal" title="The Liberal">The Liberal</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Times_Literary_Supplement" title="The Times Literary Supplement">The Times Literary Supplement</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/John_Gross" title="John Gross">John Gross</a> included James's essay "A Blizzard of Tiny Kisses" in the <i>Oxford Book of Essays</i> (1992, 1999).<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>The Metropolitan Critic</i> (1974), his first collection of literary criticism, was followed by <i>At the Pillars of Hercules</i> (1979), <i>From the Land of Shadows</i> (1982), <i>Snakecharmers in Texas</i> (1988), <i>The Dreaming Swimmer</i> (1992), <i>Even As We Speak</i> (2001), <i>The Meaning of Recognition</i> (2005) and <i><a href="/wiki/Cultural_Amnesia_(book)" title="Cultural Amnesia (book)">Cultural Amnesia</a></i> (2007), a collection of miniature intellectual biographies of over 100 significant figures in modern culture, history and politics.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A defence of <a href="/wiki/Humanism" title="Humanism">humanism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Liberal_democracy" title="Liberal democracy">liberal democracy</a> and <a href="/wiki/Obscurantism" title="Obscurantism">literary clarity</a>, the book was listed among the best of 2007 by <i><a href="/wiki/The_Village_Voice" title="The Village Voice">The Village Voice</a></i>. Another volume of essays, <i>The Revolt of the Pendulum</i>, was published in June 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He also published <i>Flying Visits</i>, a collection of <a href="/wiki/Travel_writing" class="mw-redirect" title="Travel writing">travel writing</a> for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Observer" title="The Observer">The Observer</a></i>. Until mid-2014, he wrote the weekly television critique page in the "Review" section of the Saturday edition of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Daily_Telegraph" title="The Daily Telegraph">The Daily Telegraph</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian_obituary_7-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian_obituary-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Poet_and_lyricist">Poet and lyricist</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clive_James&amp;action=edit&amp;section=4" title="Edit section: Poet and lyricist"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>James published several books of poetry, including <i>Poem of the Year</i> (1983), a verse-diary; <i>Other Passports: Poems 1958–1985</i>, a first collection and <i>The Book of My Enemy</i> (2003), a volume that takes its title from his poem "The Book of My Enemy Has Been Remaindered".<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>He published four <a href="/wiki/Mock-heroic" title="Mock-heroic">mock-heroic</a> poems: <i>The Fate of Felicity Fark in the Land of the Media: a moral poem</i> (1975), <i>Peregrine Prykke's Pilgrimage Through the London Literary World</i> (1976), <i>Britannia Bright's Bewilderment in the Wilderness of Westminster</i> (1976) and <i>Charles Charming's Challenges on the Pathway to the Throne</i> (1981), and one long autobiographical epic, <i>The River in the Sky</i> (2018).<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> During the 1970s he also collaborated on six albums of songs with <a href="/wiki/Pete_Atkin" title="Pete Atkin">Pete Atkin</a>:<sup id="cite_ref-Atkin_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Atkin-25"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Beware_of_the_Beautiful_Stranger" title="Beware of the Beautiful Stranger">Beware of the Beautiful Stranger</a></i> (1970)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Driving_Through_Mythical_America" title="Driving Through Mythical America">Driving Through Mythical America</a></i> (1971)</li> <li><i>A King at Nightfall</i> (1973)</li> <li><i>The Road of Silk</i> (1974)</li> <li><i>Secret Drinker</i> (1974)</li> <li><i>Live Libel</i> (1975)</li></ul> <p>Atkin and James toured together to promote both the final album, a "contractual obligation" collection consisting of parodies and humour numbers written over the years, and James's own <i>Felicity Fark</i> epic poem. James wrote the album sleeve notes, which mostly linked the songs with thinly disguised jibes at popular artists and trends. On stage James both read from his poem, and introduced the album songs. Despite the success of the tour, there were no more recordings by Atkin, who pursued other opportunities and eventually became a BBC radio producer. </p><p>A revival of interest in the songs in the late 1990s, triggered largely by the creation by Steve Birkill of an Internet mailing list "Midnight Voices" in 1997, led to the reissue of the six albums on CD between 1997 and 2001, as well as live performances by the pair. A double album of previously unrecorded songs written in the seventies and entitled <i>The Lakeside Sessions: Volumes 1 and 2</i> was released in 2002 and <i>Winter Spring</i>, an album of new material written by James and Atkin was released in 2003.<sup id="cite_ref-Atkin_25-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Atkin-25"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> This was followed by <i>Midnight Voices</i>, an album of remakes of the best Atkin/James songs from the early albums, and, in 2015, by <i>The Colours of the Night</i>, which included several newly completed songs.<sup id="cite_ref-Atkin_25-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Atkin-25"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>James acknowledged the importance of the <i>Midnight Voices</i> group in bringing to wider attention the lyric-writing aspect of his career. He wrote in November 1997, "That one of the midnight voices of my own fate should be the music of Pete Atkin continues to rank high among the blessings of my life".<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2013, he issued his translation of <a href="/wiki/Dante" class="mw-redirect" title="Dante">Dante</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Divine_Comedy" title="Divine Comedy">Divine Comedy</a></i>. The work, adopting <a href="/wiki/Quatrain" title="Quatrain">quatrains</a> to translate the original's <a href="/wiki/Terza_rima" title="Terza rima">terza rima</a>, was well received by Australian critics.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Writing for <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>, Joseph Luzzi thought it often failed to capture the more dramatic moments of the <i>Inferno</i>, but that it was more successful where Dante slows down, in the more theological and deliberative cantos of the <i>Purgatorio</i> and <i>Paradiso</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Novelist_and_memoirist">Novelist and memoirist</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clive_James&amp;action=edit&amp;section=5" title="Edit section: Novelist and memoirist"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1980 James published his first book of autobiography, <i><a href="/wiki/Unreliable_Memoirs" title="Unreliable Memoirs">Unreliable Memoirs</a></i>, which recounted his early life in Australia and extended to over 100 reprintings. It was followed by four other volumes of autobiography: <i><a href="/wiki/Falling_Towards_England" title="Falling Towards England">Falling Towards England</a></i> (1985), which covered his London years; <i>May Week Was in June</i> (1990), which dealt with his time at <a href="/wiki/Cambridge" title="Cambridge">Cambridge</a>; <i>North Face of Soho</i> (2006); and <i>The Blaze of Obscurity</i> (2009), concerning his subsequent career as a television presenter. An omnibus edition of the first three volumes was published under the generic title of <i>Always Unreliable</i>. James also wrote four novels: <i>Brilliant Creatures</i> (1983); <i>The Remake</i> (1987); <i>Brrm! Brrm!</i> (1991), published in the United States as <i>The Man from Japan</i>; and <i>The Silver Castle</i> (1996).<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1999, <a href="/wiki/John_Gross" title="John Gross">John Gross</a> included an excerpt from <i>Unreliable Memoirs</i> in <i>The New Oxford Book of English Prose</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/John_Carey_(critic)" title="John Carey (critic)">John Carey</a> chose <i>Unreliable Memoirs</i> as one of the 50 most enjoyable books of the 20th century in his book <i>Pure Pleasure</i> (2000).<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Television">Television</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clive_James&amp;action=edit&amp;section=6" title="Edit section: Television"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>James developed his television career as a guest commentator on various shows, including as an occasional co-presenter with <a href="/wiki/Tony_Wilson" title="Tony Wilson">Tony Wilson</a> on the first series of <i><a href="/wiki/So_It_Goes_(television_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="So It Goes (television series)">So It Goes</a></i>, the <a href="/wiki/Granada_Television" class="mw-redirect" title="Granada Television">Granada Television</a> pop music show. On the show when the <a href="/wiki/Sex_Pistols" title="Sex Pistols">Sex Pistols</a> made their TV debut, James commented: "During the recording, the task of keeping the little bastards under control was given to me. With the aid of a radio microphone, I was able to shout them down, but it was a near thing ... they attacked everything around them and had difficulty in being polite even to each other".<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>James subsequently hosted the <a href="/wiki/ITV_(TV_network)" title="ITV (TV network)">ITV</a> show <i><a href="/wiki/Clive_James_on_Television" class="mw-redirect" title="Clive James on Television">Clive James on Television</a></i>, in which he showcased unusual or (often unintentionally) amusing television programmes from around the world, notably the Japanese TV show <i><a href="/wiki/Za_Gaman" title="Za Gaman">Endurance</a></i>. After his move to the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> in 1988, he hosted a similarly formatted programme called <i>Saturday Night Clive</i> (1989–1991), which began on <a href="/wiki/BBC2" class="mw-redirect" title="BBC2">BBC2</a> but was popular enough to move to <a href="/wiki/BBC1" class="mw-redirect" title="BBC1">BBC1</a> in 1991. It returned in 1994 on Sunday nights, under the title <i>Sunday Night Clive</i>. </p><p>In 1995 he set up Watchmaker Productions to produce <i>The Clive James Show</i> for ITV, and a subsequent series launched the British career of singer and comedian <a href="/wiki/Margarita_Pracatan" title="Margarita Pracatan">Margarita Pracatan</a>. James hosted one of the early chat shows on <a href="/wiki/Channel_4" title="Channel 4">Channel 4</a> and fronted the BBC's <i>Review of the Year</i> programmes in the late 1980s (<i>Clive James on the '80s</i>) and 1990s (<i>Clive James on the '90s</i>), which formed part of the channel's New Year's Eve celebrations.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the mid-1980s, James featured in a travel programme called <i>Clive James in...</i> (beginning with <i>Clive James Live in Las Vegas</i>) for <a href="/wiki/LWT" class="mw-redirect" title="LWT">LWT</a> (now <a href="/wiki/ITV_(TV_network)" title="ITV (TV network)">ITV</a>) and later switched to <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a>, where he continued producing travel programmes, this time called <i><a href="/wiki/Clive_James%27s_Postcard_from..." title="Clive James&#39;s Postcard from...">Clive James's Postcard from...</a></i> (beginning with <i>Clive James's Postcard from Miami</i>) – these also eventually transferred to ITV. He was also one of the original team of presenters of the BBC's <i><a href="/wiki/The_Late_Show_(BBC_TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Late Show (BBC TV series)">The Late Show</a></i>, hosting a round-table discussion on Friday nights.<sup id="cite_ref-GuardianObit_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GuardianObit-35"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>His major documentary series <i><a href="/wiki/Fame_in_the_20th_Century" title="Fame in the 20th Century">Fame in the 20th Century</a></i> (1993) was broadcast in the United Kingdom by the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a>, in Australia by the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Broadcasting_Corporation" title="Australian Broadcasting Corporation">ABC</a> and in the United States by the <a href="/wiki/PBS" title="PBS">PBS</a> network. This series dealt with the concept of "fame" in the 20th century, following over a course of eight episodes (each one chronologically and roughly devoted to one decade of the century, from the 1900s to the 1980s) discussions about world-famous people of the 20th century. Through the use of film footage, James presented a history of "fame" which explored its growth to today's global proportions. In his closing monologue he remarked, "Achievement without fame can be a rewarding life, while fame without achievement is no life at all."<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>A fan of <a href="/wiki/Motor_racing" class="mw-redirect" title="Motor racing">motor racing</a>, James presented the <a href="/wiki/1982_Formula_One_World_Championship" title="1982 Formula One World Championship">1982</a>, <a href="/wiki/1984_Formula_One_World_Championship" title="1984 Formula One World Championship">1984</a> and <a href="/wiki/1986_Formula_One_World_Championship" title="1986 Formula One World Championship">1986</a> official <a href="/wiki/Formula_One" title="Formula One">Formula One</a> season review videos produced by the <a href="/wiki/Formula_One_Constructors_Association" class="mw-redirect" title="Formula One Constructors Association">Formula One Constructors Association</a> (FOCA). He attended most F1 races during the 1980s and was a friend of former FOCA boss <a href="/wiki/Bernie_Ecclestone" title="Bernie Ecclestone">Bernie Ecclestone</a>. He also presented <i>The Clive James Formula 1 Show</i> for <a href="/wiki/ITV_(TV_network)" title="ITV (TV network)">ITV</a> to coincide with their <a href="/wiki/Formula_One" title="Formula One">Formula One</a> coverage in <a href="/wiki/1997_Formula_One_World_Championship" title="1997 Formula One World Championship">1997</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-GuardianObit_35-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GuardianObit-35"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Radio">Radio</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clive_James&amp;action=edit&amp;section=7" title="Edit section: Radio"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2007, James started presenting the <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_4" title="BBC Radio 4">BBC Radio 4</a> series <i>A Point of View</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> with transcripts appearing in the "Magazine" section of <a href="/wiki/BBC_News_Online" title="BBC News Online">BBC News Online</a>. In this programme James discussed various issues with a slightly humorous slant. Topics covered included media portrayal of torture,<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> young black role models<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and corporate <a href="/wiki/Rebranding" title="Rebranding">rebranding</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Three of James's broadcasts in 2007 were shortlisted for the 2008 <a href="/wiki/Orwell_Prize" title="Orwell Prize">Orwell Prize</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In October 2009, James read a radio version of his book <i>The Blaze of Obscurity</i> on BBC Radio 4's <i><a href="/wiki/Book_of_the_Week" title="Book of the Week">Book of the Week</a></i> programme.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In December 2009, James talked about the <a href="/wiki/P-51_Mustang" class="mw-redirect" title="P-51 Mustang">P-51 Mustang</a> and other American fighter aircraft of World War II in <i>The Museum of Curiosity</i> on BBC Radio 4.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In May 2011, the BBC published a new podcast, <i>A Point of View: Clive James</i>, which features all sixty <i>A Point of View</i> programmes presented by James between 2007 and 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>He posted <a href="/wiki/Vlog" title="Vlog">vlog</a> conversations from his internet show <i>Talking in the Library</i>, including conversations with <a href="/wiki/Ian_McEwan" title="Ian McEwan">Ian McEwan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cate_Blanchett" title="Cate Blanchett">Cate Blanchett</a>, <a href="/wiki/Julian_Barnes" title="Julian Barnes">Julian Barnes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Miller" title="Jonathan Miller">Jonathan Miller</a> and <a href="/wiki/Terry_Gilliam" title="Terry Gilliam">Terry Gilliam</a>. In addition to the poetry and <a href="/wiki/Prose" title="Prose">prose</a> of James himself, the site featured the works of other literary figures such as <a href="/wiki/Les_Murray_(poet)" title="Les Murray (poet)">Les Murray</a> and <a href="/wiki/Michael_Frayn" title="Michael Frayn">Michael Frayn</a>, as well as the works of painters, sculptors and photographers such as <a href="/wiki/John_Olsen_(Australian_artist)" title="John Olsen (Australian artist)">John Olsen</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_Smart" title="Jeffrey Smart">Jeffrey Smart</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Theatre">Theatre</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clive_James&amp;action=edit&amp;section=8" title="Edit section: Theatre"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2008 James performed in two eponymous shows at the <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_Festival_Fringe" title="Edinburgh Festival Fringe">Edinburgh Festival Fringe</a>: <i>Clive James in Conversation</i> and <i>Clive James in the Evening</i>. He took the latter show on a limited tour of the UK in 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Honours">Honours</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clive_James&amp;action=edit&amp;section=9" title="Edit section: Honours"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Clive_James_Sydney_Writers_Walk_plaque.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Clive_James_Sydney_Writers_Walk_plaque.jpg/220px-Clive_James_Sydney_Writers_Walk_plaque.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Clive_James_Sydney_Writers_Walk_plaque.jpg/330px-Clive_James_Sydney_Writers_Walk_plaque.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Clive_James_Sydney_Writers_Walk_plaque.jpg/440px-Clive_James_Sydney_Writers_Walk_plaque.jpg 2x" data-file-width="886" data-file-height="886" /></a><figcaption>James's plaque on the <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Writers_Walk" title="Sydney Writers Walk">Sydney Writers Walk</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In 1992, James was made a Member of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Australia" title="Order of Australia">Order of Australia</a> (AM). This was enhanced to Officer level (AO) in the <a href="/wiki/2013_Australia_Day_Honours" title="2013 Australia Day Honours">2013 Australia Day Honours</a>. James was appointed <a href="/wiki/Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Commander of the Order of the British Empire">Commander of the Order of the British Empire</a> (CBE) in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to literature and the media.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2003 he was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Philip_Hodgins" title="Philip Hodgins">Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal for Literature</a>. He received <a href="/wiki/Honorary_doctorates" class="mw-redirect" title="Honorary doctorates">honorary doctorates</a> from the Universities of Sydney and <a href="/wiki/University_of_East_Anglia" title="University of East Anglia">East Anglia</a>. In April 2008, James was awarded a Special Award for Writing and Broadcasting by the judges of the <a href="/wiki/Orwell_Prize" title="Orwell Prize">Orwell Prize</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>He was elected a Fellow of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Society_of_Literature" title="Royal Society of Literature">Royal Society of Literature</a> in 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He was an Honorary Fellow of <a href="/wiki/Pembroke_College,_Cambridge" title="Pembroke College, Cambridge">Pembroke College, Cambridge</a> (his alma mater). In the <a href="/wiki/2015_British_Academy_Television_Awards" title="2015 British Academy Television Awards">2015</a> <a href="/wiki/BAFTAs" class="mw-redirect" title="BAFTAs">BAFTAs</a>, James received a special award honouring his 50-year career.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2014, he was awarded the <a href="/wiki/President%27s_Medal_(British_Academy)" title="President&#39;s Medal (British Academy)">President's Medal</a> by the <a href="/wiki/British_Academy" title="British Academy">British Academy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>James is celebrated with a plaque on the <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Writers_Walk" title="Sydney Writers Walk">Sydney Writers Walk</a> on <a href="/wiki/Circular_Quay" title="Circular Quay">Circular Quay</a>. It includes an excerpt on <a href="/wiki/Sydney_Harbour" class="mw-redirect" title="Sydney Harbour">Sydney Harbour</a> from <i>Unreliable Memoirs</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Political_views">Political views</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clive_James&amp;action=edit&amp;section=10" title="Edit section: Political views"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>James's political views were prominent in much of his later writing. While <a href="/wiki/Critic" title="Critic">critical</a> of <a href="/wiki/Communism" title="Communism">communism</a> for its tendency towards <a href="/wiki/Totalitarianism" title="Totalitarianism">totalitarianism</a>, he identified with the left for much of his life. In a 2006 interview in <i>The Sunday Times</i>, James said of himself: "I was brought up on the proletarian left, and I remain there. The fair go for the workers is fundamental, and I don't believe the <a href="/wiki/Free_market" title="Free market">free market</a> has a mind."<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In a speech given in 1991, he criticised privatisation, saying: "The idea that Britain's broadcasting system—for all its drawbacks one of the country's greatest institutions—was bound to be improved by being subjected to the conditions of a free market: there was no difficulty in recognising that notion as politically illiterate. But for some reason people did have difficulty in realising that it was economically illiterate too."<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2001, James identified as a liberal <a href="/wiki/Social_democrat" class="mw-redirect" title="Social democrat">social democrat</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-artstoday_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-artstoday-54"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>His later views were more commonly aligned with the political right. James strongly supported the <a href="/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq" title="2003 invasion of Iraq">2003 invasion of Iraq</a>, saying in 2007 that "the war only lasted a few days" and that the continuing conflict in Iraq was "the Iraq peace".<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He also wrote that it was "official policy to rape a woman in front of her family" during <a href="/wiki/Saddam_Hussein" title="Saddam Hussein">Saddam Hussein</a>'s regime and that women have enjoyed more rights since the invasion.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2017, James contributed a chapter to a book on climate change published by the <a href="/wiki/Institute_of_Public_Affairs" title="Institute of Public Affairs">Institute of Public Affairs</a>, advocating <a href="/wiki/Climate_denialism" class="mw-redirect" title="Climate denialism">climate denialism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Describing religions as "advertising agencies for a product that doesn't exist", James was an <a href="/wiki/Atheist" class="mw-redirect" title="Atheist">atheist</a> and saw it as the default and obvious position.<sup id="cite_ref-abc.net.au_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-abc.net.au-58"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He was also a patron of the <a href="/wiki/Burma_Campaign_UK" title="Burma Campaign UK">Burma Campaign UK</a>, an organisation that campaigns for human rights and democracy in Burma.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clive_James&amp;action=edit&amp;section=11" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1968, at Cambridge,<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> James married Prudence A. "Prue" Shaw,<sup id="cite_ref-McCrum_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McCrum-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> also Australian, a graduate of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Sydney" title="University of Sydney">University of Sydney</a>, the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Florence" title="University of Florence">University of Florence</a> and <a href="/wiki/Somerville_College,_Oxford" title="Somerville College, Oxford">Somerville College, Oxford</a>. Shaw taught Italian language and literature at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Cambridge" title="University of Cambridge">University of Cambridge</a>, and at <a href="/wiki/University_College_London" title="University College London">University College London</a> where, since retirement in 2003, she has been <a href="/wiki/Emeritus" title="Emeritus">emerita</a> reader in Italian studies. She is the author of <i>Reading Dante: From Here to Eternity</i>. </p><p>James and Shaw had two daughters, one of whom is the artist <a href="/wiki/Claerwen_James" title="Claerwen James">Claerwen James</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In April 2012, the Australian <a href="/wiki/Nine_Network" title="Nine Network">Channel Nine</a> programme <i><a href="/wiki/A_Current_Affair_(Australian_TV_program)" title="A Current Affair (Australian TV program)">A Current Affair</a></i> ran an item in which the former model Leanne Edelsten admitted to an eight-year affair with James beginning in 2004.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Shaw evicted her husband from the family home following the revelation.<sup id="cite_ref-McCrum_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McCrum-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Before this, for most of his working life, James divided his time between a converted warehouse flat in London and the family home in Cambridge.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the death of <a href="/wiki/Diana,_Princess_of_Wales" title="Diana, Princess of Wales">Diana, Princess of Wales</a>, James wrote a piece for <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker">The New Yorker</a></i> entitled "Requiem", recording his overwhelming grief.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> From then he mainly declined to comment about their friendship, apart from some remarks in his fifth volume of memoirs, <i>Blaze of Obscurity</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>James was able to read, with varying fluency, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian and Japanese.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A <a href="/wiki/Tango" title="Tango">tango</a> enthusiast, he travelled to <a href="/wiki/Buenos_Aires" title="Buenos Aires">Buenos Aires</a> for dance lessons and had a dance floor in his house.<sup id="cite_ref-abc.net.au_58-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-abc.net.au-58"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>James was a fan of the <a href="/wiki/St_George_Dragons" class="mw-redirect" title="St George Dragons">St George Dragons</a> and wrote admiringly of <a href="/wiki/The_Immortals_(rugby_league)" title="The Immortals (rugby league)">Rugby League Immortal</a> <a href="/wiki/Reg_Gasnier" title="Reg Gasnier">Reg Gasnier</a> who was a schoolmate at Sydney Technical High School.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He guest presented one episode of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Footy_Show_(rugby_league)" title="The Footy Show (rugby league)">The Footy Show</a></i> in 2005.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Health_and_death">Health and death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clive_James&amp;action=edit&amp;section=12" title="Edit section: Health and death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>For much of his life, James was a heavy drinker and smoker. He recorded in <i>May Week Was in June</i> his habit of filling a <a href="/wiki/Hubcap" title="Hubcap">hubcap</a> ashtray daily.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> At various times he wrote of attempts, intermittently successful, to give up drinking and smoking.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He smoked 80 cigarettes a day for a number of years before giving up in 2005. (Prior to this, he had been successful in giving up smoking for 13 years, beginning in his early 30s.)<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In April 2011, after media speculation that he had suffered kidney failure,<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> James confirmed in June 2012 that <a href="/wiki/B-cell_chronic_lymphocytic_leukemia" class="mw-redirect" title="B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia">B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia</a> "had beaten him" and that he was "near the end".<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He said that he was also diagnosed with <a href="/wiki/Chronic_obstructive_pulmonary_disease" title="Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease">emphysema</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kidney_failure" title="Kidney failure">kidney failure</a> in early 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 3 September 2013, an interview with journalist <a href="/wiki/Kerry_O%27Brien_(journalist)" title="Kerry O&#39;Brien (journalist)">Kerry O'Brien</a>, <i>Clive James: The Kid from Kogarah</i>, was broadcast by the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Broadcasting_Corporation" title="Australian Broadcasting Corporation">Australian Broadcasting Corporation</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-KerrOABCSep2013_79-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-KerrOABCSep2013-79"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The interview was filmed in the library of his old college at Cambridge University. In the extended interview, James discussed his illness and confronting mortality.<sup id="cite_ref-KerrOABCSep2013_79-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-KerrOABCSep2013-79"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> James wrote the poem "Japanese Maple" which was published in <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker">The New Yorker</a></i> in 2014 and described as his "farewell poem".<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> called it "a poignant meditation on his impending death".<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In a BBC interview with <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Stayt" title="Charlie Stayt">Charlie Stayt</a>, broadcast on 31 March 2015, James described himself as "near to death but thankful for life".<sup id="cite_ref-Stayt_82-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stayt-82"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In October 2015, he admitted to feeling "embarrassment" at still being alive thanks to experimental drug treatment.<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Until June 2017, he wrote a weekly column for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i> entitled "Reports of My Death...".<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> James died at his home in Cambridge on 24 November 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clive_James&amp;action=edit&amp;section=13" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Memoir">Memoir</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clive_James&amp;action=edit&amp;section=14" title="Edit section: Memoir"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output 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class="citation book cs1"><i><a href="/wiki/Unreliable_Memoirs" title="Unreliable Memoirs">Unreliable Memoirs</a></i>. Jonathan Cape. 1980.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Unreliable+Memoirs&amp;rft.pub=Jonathan+Cape&amp;rft.date=1980&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive1985" class="citation book cs1"><span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/fallingtowardsen00jame"><i>Falling Towards England</i></a></span>. Jonathan Cape. 1985. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-330-29437-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-330-29437-9"><bdi>978-0-330-29437-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Falling+Towards+England&amp;rft.pub=Jonathan+Cape&amp;rft.date=1985&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-330-29437-9&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Ffallingtowardsen00jame&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive1990" class="citation book cs1"><span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/mayweekwasinjune0000jame"><i>May Week Was in June</i></a></span>. Jonathan Cape. 1990. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-330-31522-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-330-31522-7"><bdi>978-0-330-31522-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=May+Week+Was+in+June&amp;rft.pub=Jonathan+Cape&amp;rft.date=1990&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-330-31522-7&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fmayweekwasinjune0000jame&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive2006" class="citation book cs1"><span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/northfaceofsohou0000jame"><i>North Face of Soho</i></a></span>. Picador. 2006. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-330-48128-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-330-48128-1"><bdi>978-0-330-48128-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=North+Face+of+Soho&amp;rft.pub=Picador&amp;rft.date=2006&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-330-48128-1&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fnorthfaceofsohou0000jame&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive2009" class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=9eraHpUpSqIC"><i>The Blaze of Obscurity</i></a>. Picador. 2009. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-330-45736-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-330-45736-1"><bdi>978-0-330-45736-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Blaze+of+Obscurity&amp;rft.pub=Picador&amp;rft.date=2009&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-330-45736-1&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D9eraHpUpSqIC&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Criticism">Criticism</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clive_James&amp;action=edit&amp;section=15" title="Edit section: Criticism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive1974" class="citation book cs1"><i>The Metropolitan Critic</i>. Faber and Faber. 1974. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-224-04241-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-224-04241-3"><bdi>978-0-224-04241-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Metropolitan+Critic&amp;rft.pub=Faber+and+Faber&amp;rft.date=1974&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-224-04241-3&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span><sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <ul><li>New edition: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive1994" class="citation book cs1"><i>The Metropolitan Critic: Non-fiction 1968–1973</i>. Jonathan Cape. 1994. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4472-6790-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4472-6790-4"><bdi>978-1-4472-6790-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Metropolitan+Critic%3A+Non-fiction+1968%E2%80%931973&amp;rft.pub=Jonathan+Cape&amp;rft.date=1994&amp;rft.isbn=978-1-4472-6790-4&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive1977" class="citation book cs1"><i><a href="/wiki/Visions_Before_Midnight" title="Visions Before Midnight">Visions Before Midnight</a>: Television Criticism from the Observer 1972–76</i>. Jonathan Cape. 1977. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-224-01386-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-224-01386-6"><bdi>0-224-01386-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Visions+Before+Midnight%3A+Television+Criticism+from+the+Observer+1972%E2%80%9376&amp;rft.pub=Jonathan+Cape&amp;rft.date=1977&amp;rft.isbn=0-224-01386-6&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive1979" class="citation book cs1"><i>At the Pillars of Hercules: Non-fiction 1973–1977</i>. Faber and Faber. 1979. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-330-37214-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-330-37214-5"><bdi>978-0-330-37214-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=At+the+Pillars+of+Hercules%3A+Non-fiction+1973%E2%80%931977&amp;rft.pub=Faber+and+Faber&amp;rft.date=1979&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-330-37214-5&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive1980" class="citation book cs1"><span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/firstreactionscr0000jame"><i>First Reactions: Critical Essays 1968–79</i></a></span>. Knopf. 1980. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-394-51233-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-394-51233-4"><bdi>978-0-394-51233-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=First+Reactions%3A+Critical+Essays+1968%E2%80%9379&amp;rft.pub=Knopf&amp;rft.date=1980&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-394-51233-4&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Ffirstreactionscr0000jame&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span> (US collection)</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive1981" class="citation book cs1"><i>The Crystal Bucket: Television Criticism from the Observer 1976–79</i>. Jonathan Cape. 1981. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-330-26745-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-330-26745-8"><bdi>978-0-330-26745-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Crystal+Bucket%3A+Television+Criticism+from+the+Observer+1976%E2%80%9379&amp;rft.pub=Jonathan+Cape&amp;rft.date=1981&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-330-26745-8&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive1982" class="citation book cs1"><i>From the Land of Shadows</i>. Jonathan Cape. 1982. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-330-26994-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-330-26994-0"><bdi>978-0-330-26994-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=From+the+Land+of+Shadows&amp;rft.pub=Jonathan+Cape&amp;rft.date=1982&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-330-26994-0&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span> (Essays 1977–81)</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive1983" class="citation book cs1"><i><a href="/wiki/Glued_to_the_Box" title="Glued to the Box">Glued to the Box</a>: Television Criticism from the Observer 1979–82</i>. Jonathan Cape. 1983. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-224-02066-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-224-02066-4"><bdi>978-0-224-02066-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Glued+to+the+Box%3A+Television+Criticism+from+the+Observer+1979%E2%80%9382&amp;rft.pub=Jonathan+Cape&amp;rft.date=1983&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-224-02066-4&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive1988" class="citation book cs1"><i>Snakecharmers in Texas: Essays 1980–87</i>. Jonathan Cape. 1988. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-330-30580-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-330-30580-8"><bdi>978-0-330-30580-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Snakecharmers+in+Texas%3A+Essays+1980%E2%80%9387&amp;rft.pub=Jonathan+Cape&amp;rft.date=1988&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-330-30580-8&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive1991" class="citation book cs1"><i>Clive James on Television</i>. Picador. 1991.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Clive+James+on+Television&amp;rft.pub=Picador&amp;rft.date=1991&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span> (Collects <i>Visions Before Midnight</i>, <i>The Crystal Bucket</i>, and <i>Glued to the Box</i>)</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive1992" class="citation book cs1"><span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/dreamingswimmern00jame"><i>The Dreaming Swimmer: Non-fiction 1987–1992</i></a></span>. Jonathan Cape. 1992. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-330-33121-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-330-33121-0"><bdi>978-0-330-33121-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Dreaming+Swimmer%3A+Non-fiction+1987%E2%80%931992&amp;rft.pub=Jonathan+Cape&amp;rft.date=1992&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-330-33121-0&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fdreamingswimmern00jame&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive1993" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Fame_in_the_20th_Century" title="Fame in the 20th Century"><i>Fame in the 20th Century</i></a>. BBC Books. 1993. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-563-36274-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-563-36274-6"><bdi>978-0-563-36274-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Fame+in+the+20th+Century&amp;rft.pub=BBC+Books&amp;rft.date=1993&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-563-36274-6&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span> (Book of the TV series)</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive2001" class="citation book cs1"><i>Even As We Speak: New Essays 1993–2001</i>. Picador. 2001. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-330-48176-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-330-48176-2"><bdi>978-0-330-48176-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Even+As+We+Speak%3A+New+Essays+1993%E2%80%932001&amp;rft.pub=Picador&amp;rft.date=2001&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-330-48176-2&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive2001" class="citation book cs1"><i>Reliable Essays: The Best of Clive James</i>. Picador. 2001. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-330-48129-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-330-48129-8"><bdi>978-0-330-48129-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Reliable+Essays%3A+The+Best+of+Clive+James&amp;rft.pub=Picador&amp;rft.date=2001&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-330-48129-8&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive2003" class="citation book cs1"><span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/asofthiswritinge00jame"><i>As of This Writing: The Essential Essays, 1968–2002</i></a></span>. W. W. Norton &amp; Company. 2003. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-393-05180-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-393-05180-3"><bdi>978-0-393-05180-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=As+of+This+Writing%3A+The+Essential+Essays%2C+1968%E2%80%932002&amp;rft.pub=W.+W.+Norton+%26+Company&amp;rft.date=2003&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-393-05180-3&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fasofthiswritinge00jame&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span> (US collection) <ul><li>Reissue: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive2013" class="citation book cs1"><i>Cultural Cohesion: The Essential Essays, 1968–2002</i>. W. W. Norton &amp; Company. 2013. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-393-34636-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-393-34636-7"><bdi>978-0-393-34636-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Cultural+Cohesion%3A+The+Essential+Essays%2C+1968%E2%80%932002&amp;rft.pub=W.+W.+Norton+%26+Company&amp;rft.date=2013&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-393-34636-7&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive2005" class="citation book cs1"><i>The Meaning of Recognition: New Essays 2001–2005</i>. Picador. 2005.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Meaning+of+Recognition%3A+New+Essays+2001%E2%80%932005&amp;rft.pub=Picador&amp;rft.date=2005&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive2007" class="citation book cs1"><i><a href="/wiki/Cultural_Amnesia_(book)" title="Cultural Amnesia (book)">Cultural Amnesia</a>: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts</i>. W. W. Norton &amp; Company. 2007. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-393-06116-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-393-06116-1"><bdi>978-0-393-06116-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Cultural+Amnesia%3A+Necessary+Memories+from+History+and+the+Arts&amp;rft.pub=W.+W.+Norton+%26+Company&amp;rft.date=2007&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-393-06116-1&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive2009" class="citation book cs1"><i>The Revolt of the Pendulum: Essays 2005–2008</i>. Picador. 2009. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-330-45739-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-330-45739-2"><bdi>978-0-330-45739-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Revolt+of+the+Pendulum%3A+Essays+2005%E2%80%932008&amp;rft.pub=Picador&amp;rft.date=2009&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-330-45739-2&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive2011" class="citation book cs1"><i>A Point of View</i>. Picador. 2011. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-330-53438-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-330-53438-3"><bdi>978-0-330-53438-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=A+Point+of+View&amp;rft.pub=Picador&amp;rft.date=2011&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-330-53438-3&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span> (Book of the radio series)</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive2014" class="citation book cs1"><i>Poetry Notebook: 2006–2014</i>. Picador. 2014. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4472-6910-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4472-6910-6"><bdi>978-1-4472-6910-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Poetry+Notebook%3A+2006%E2%80%932014&amp;rft.pub=Picador&amp;rft.date=2014&amp;rft.isbn=978-1-4472-6910-6&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive2015" class="citation book cs1"><i>Latest Readings</i>. Yale University Press. 2015. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-300-22355-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-300-22355-2"><bdi>978-0-300-22355-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Latest+Readings&amp;rft.pub=Yale+University+Press&amp;rft.date=2015&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-300-22355-2&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive2016" class="citation book cs1"><i>Play All: A Bingewatcher's Notebook</i>. Yale University Press. 2016. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-300-22970-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-300-22970-7"><bdi>978-0-300-22970-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Play+All%3A+A+Bingewatcher%27s+Notebook&amp;rft.pub=Yale+University+Press&amp;rft.date=2016&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-300-22970-7&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive2019" class="citation book cs1"><i>Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin</i>. Picador. 2019. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-5290-2882-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-5290-2882-9"><bdi>978-1-5290-2882-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Somewhere+Becoming+Rain%3A+Collected+Writings+on+Philip+Larkin&amp;rft.pub=Picador&amp;rft.date=2019&amp;rft.isbn=978-1-5290-2882-9&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Travel">Travel</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clive_James&amp;action=edit&amp;section=16" title="Edit section: Travel"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive1984" class="citation book cs1"><span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/flyingvisitspost00jame"><i>Flying Visits: Postcards from the Observer 1976–83</i></a></span>. Jonathan Cape. 1984. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-330-28839-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-330-28839-2"><bdi>978-0-330-28839-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Flying+Visits%3A+Postcards+from+the+Observer+1976%E2%80%9383&amp;rft.pub=Jonathan+Cape&amp;rft.date=1984&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-330-28839-2&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fflyingvisitspost00jame&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Novels">Novels</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clive_James&amp;action=edit&amp;section=17" title="Edit section: Novels"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive1983" class="citation book cs1"><span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/brilliantcreatur00cliv"><i>Brilliant Creatures</i></a></span>. Jonathan Cape. 1983. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-330-28343-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-330-28343-4"><bdi>978-0-330-28343-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Brilliant+Creatures&amp;rft.pub=Jonathan+Cape&amp;rft.date=1983&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-330-28343-4&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fbrilliantcreatur00cliv&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive1987" class="citation book cs1"><span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/remake00cliv"><i>The Remake</i></a></span>. Jonathan Cape. 1987. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-330-30374-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-330-30374-3"><bdi>978-0-330-30374-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Remake&amp;rft.pub=Jonathan+Cape&amp;rft.date=1987&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-330-30374-3&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fremake00cliv&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive1991" class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=gN0sDgAAQBAJ"><i>Brrm! Brrm! (or The Man from Japan, or Perfume at Anchorage)</i></a>. Jonathan Cape. 1991. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-330-32548-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-330-32548-6"><bdi>978-0-330-32548-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Brrm%21+Brrm%21+%28or+The+Man+from+Japan%2C+or+Perfume+at+Anchorage%29&amp;rft.pub=Jonathan+Cape&amp;rft.date=1991&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-330-32548-6&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DgN0sDgAAQBAJ&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span> (US title: <i>The Man from Japan</i>)</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive1996" class="citation book cs1"><span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/silvercastlenove00jame"><i>The Silver Castle</i></a></span>. Jonathan Cape. 1996. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-224-04384-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-224-04384-7"><bdi>978-0-224-04384-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Silver+Castle&amp;rft.pub=Jonathan+Cape&amp;rft.date=1996&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-224-04384-7&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fsilvercastlenove00jame&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Poetry">Poetry</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clive_James&amp;action=edit&amp;section=18" title="Edit section: Poetry"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Poetry_collections">Poetry collections</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clive_James&amp;action=edit&amp;section=19" title="Edit section: Poetry collections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive1977" class="citation book cs1"><i>Fan-mail: Seven Verse Letters</i>. Faber and Faber. 1977. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-571-11058-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-571-11058-2"><bdi>978-0-571-11058-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Fan-mail%3A+Seven+Verse+Letters&amp;rft.pub=Faber+and+Faber&amp;rft.date=1977&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-571-11058-2&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive1986" class="citation book cs1"><i>Other Passports: Poems 1958–1985</i>. Jonathan Cape. 1986. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-330-30179-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-330-30179-4"><bdi>978-0-330-30179-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Other+Passports%3A+Poems+1958%E2%80%931985&amp;rft.pub=Jonathan+Cape&amp;rft.date=1986&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-330-30179-4&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive2003" class="citation book cs1"><i>The Book of My Enemy: Collected Verse 1958–2003</i>. Picador. 2003. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-330-42004-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-330-42004-4"><bdi>978-0-330-42004-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Book+of+My+Enemy%3A+Collected+Verse+1958%E2%80%932003&amp;rft.pub=Picador&amp;rft.date=2003&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-330-42004-4&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive2008" class="citation book cs1"><i>Angels Over Elsinore: Collected Verse 2003–2008</i>. Picador. 2008. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-330-45740-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-330-45740-8"><bdi>978-0-330-45740-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Angels+Over+Elsinore%3A+Collected+Verse+2003%E2%80%932008&amp;rft.pub=Picador&amp;rft.date=2008&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-330-45740-8&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive2008" class="citation book cs1"><span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/opalsunsetselect00jame"><i>Opal Sunset: Selected Poems 1958–2008</i></a></span>. W.W. Norton &amp; Co. 2008. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-393-06707-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-393-06707-1"><bdi>978-0-393-06707-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Opal+Sunset%3A+Selected+Poems+1958%E2%80%932008&amp;rft.pub=W.W.+Norton+%26+Co.&amp;rft.date=2008&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-393-06707-1&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fopalsunsetselect00jame&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive2012" class="citation book cs1"><i>Nefertiti in the Flak Tower: Collected Verse 2008–2011</i>. Picador. 2012. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4472-0700-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4472-0700-9"><bdi>978-1-4472-0700-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Nefertiti+in+the+Flak+Tower%3A+Collected+Verse+2008%E2%80%932011&amp;rft.pub=Picador&amp;rft.date=2012&amp;rft.isbn=978-1-4472-0700-9&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive2015" class="citation book cs1"><i>Sentenced to Life: Poems 2011–2014</i>. Picador. 2015. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4472-8405-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4472-8405-5"><bdi>978-1-4472-8405-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Sentenced+to+Life%3A+Poems+2011%E2%80%932014&amp;rft.pub=Picador&amp;rft.date=2015&amp;rft.isbn=978-1-4472-8405-5&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive2016" class="citation book cs1"><i>Collected Poems 1958–2015</i>. Picador. 2016. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-63149-247-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-63149-247-1"><bdi>978-1-63149-247-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Collected+Poems+1958%E2%80%932015&amp;rft.pub=Picador&amp;rft.date=2016&amp;rft.isbn=978-1-63149-247-1&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive2017" class="citation book cs1"><i>Injury Time</i>. Picador. 2017. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-5098-5298-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-5098-5298-7"><bdi>978-1-5098-5298-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Injury+Time&amp;rft.pub=Picador&amp;rft.date=2017&amp;rft.isbn=978-1-5098-5298-7&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Epic_poems">Epic poems</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clive_James&amp;action=edit&amp;section=20" title="Edit section: Epic poems"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive1975" class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=MBpIcAAACAAJ"><i>The Fate of Felicity Fark in the Land of the Media</i></a>. Jonathan Cape. 1975. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-224-01185-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-224-01185-3"><bdi>978-0-224-01185-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Fate+of+Felicity+Fark+in+the+Land+of+the+Media&amp;rft.pub=Jonathan+Cape&amp;rft.date=1975&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-224-01185-3&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DMBpIcAAACAAJ&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive1976" class="citation book cs1"><i>Peregrine Prykke's Pilgrimage through the London Literary World</i>. Jonathan Cape. 1976.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Peregrine+Prykke%27s+Pilgrimage+through+the+London+Literary+World&amp;rft.pub=Jonathan+Cape&amp;rft.date=1976&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span><sup id="cite_ref-Guardian_obituary_7-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian_obituary-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive1976" class="citation book cs1"><span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/britanniabrights0000jame"><i>Britannia Bright's Bewilderment in the Wilderness of Westminster</i></a></span>. Jonathan Cape. 1976. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-224-01319-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-224-01319-2"><bdi>978-0-224-01319-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Britannia+Bright%27s+Bewilderment+in+the+Wilderness+of+Westminster&amp;rft.pub=Jonathan+Cape&amp;rft.date=1976&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-224-01319-2&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fbritanniabrights0000jame&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive1981" class="citation book cs1"><i>Charles Charming's Challenges on the Pathway to the Throne</i>. Jonathan Cape. 1981. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-224-01954-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-224-01954-5"><bdi>978-0-224-01954-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Charles+Charming%27s+Challenges+on+the+Pathway+to+the+Throne&amp;rft.pub=Jonathan+Cape&amp;rft.date=1981&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-224-01954-5&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive1983" class="citation book cs1"><i>Poem of the Year</i>. Jonathan Cape. 1983. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-224-02961-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-224-02961-2"><bdi>978-0-224-02961-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Poem+of+the+Year&amp;rft.pub=Jonathan+Cape&amp;rft.date=1983&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-224-02961-2&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive2016" class="citation book cs1"><i>Gate of Lilacs: A Verse Commentary on Proust</i>. Picador. 2016. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-5098-1235-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-5098-1235-6"><bdi>978-1-5098-1235-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Gate+of+Lilacs%3A+A+Verse+Commentary+on+Proust&amp;rft.pub=Picador&amp;rft.date=2016&amp;rft.isbn=978-1-5098-1235-6&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive2018" class="citation book cs1"><i>The River in the Sky</i>. Picador. 2018. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-5098-8723-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-5098-8723-1"><bdi>978-1-5098-8723-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+River+in+the+Sky&amp;rft.pub=Picador&amp;rft.date=2018&amp;rft.isbn=978-1-5098-8723-1&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Translation">Translation</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clive_James&amp;action=edit&amp;section=21" title="Edit section: Translation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDante2013" class="citation book cs1">Dante (2013). <i><a href="/wiki/The_Divine_Comedy" class="mw-redirect" title="The Divine Comedy">The Divine Comedy</a>: A new verse translation by Clive James</i>. Liveright. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-87140-741-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-87140-741-2"><bdi>978-0-87140-741-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Divine+Comedy%3A+A+new+verse+translation+by+Clive+James&amp;rft.pub=Liveright&amp;rft.date=2013&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-87140-741-2&amp;rft.au=Dante&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Anthology">Anthology</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clive_James&amp;action=edit&amp;section=22" title="Edit section: Anthology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive2020" class="citation book cs1"><i>The Fire of Joy: Roughly 80 Poems to Get by Heart and Say Aloud</i>. Picador. 2020. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-52904-208-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-52904-208-5"><bdi>978-1-52904-208-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Fire+of+Joy%3A+Roughly+80+Poems+to+Get+by+Heart+and+Say+Aloud&amp;rft.pub=Picador&amp;rft.date=2020&amp;rft.isbn=978-1-52904-208-5&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="List_of_selected_poems">List of selected poems</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clive_James&amp;action=edit&amp;section=23" title="Edit section: List of selected poems"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable" width="90%"> <tbody><tr> <th width="25%">Title </th> <th>Year </th> <th>First published </th> <th>Reprinted/collected </th></tr> <tr> <td data-sort-value="Book of my enemy has been remaindered">The book of my enemy has been remaindered </td> <td>1983 </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive1983" class="citation journal cs1">James, Clive (2 June 1983). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v05/n10/clive-james/the-book-of-my-enemy-has-been-remaindered">"The book of my enemy has been remaindered"</a>. <i>The London Review of Books</i>. <b>5</b> (10).</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=The+London+Review+of+Books&amp;rft.atitle=The+book+of+my+enemy+has+been+remaindered&amp;rft.volume=5&amp;rft.issue=10&amp;rft.date=1983-06-02&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lrb.co.uk%2Fthe-paper%2Fv05%2Fn10%2Fclive-james%2Fthe-book-of-my-enemy-has-been-remaindered&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Beachmaster </td> <td>2009 </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive2009" class="citation journal cs1">James, Clive (April 2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2009/march/1237959353/clive-james/beachmaster">"Beachmaster"</a>. <i>The Monthly</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=The+Monthly&amp;rft.atitle=Beachmaster&amp;rft.date=2009-04&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themonthly.com.au%2Fissue%2F2009%2Fmarch%2F1237959353%2Fclive-james%2Fbeachmaster&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Early to bed </td> <td>2013 </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive2013" class="citation journal cs1">James, Clive (April 2013). "Early to bed". <i>Australian Book Review</i>. <b>350</b>: 25.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=Australian+Book+Review&amp;rft.atitle=Early+to+bed&amp;rft.volume=350&amp;rft.pages=25&amp;rft.date=2013-04&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Leçons de ténèbres </td> <td>2013 </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive2013" class="citation magazine cs1">James, Clive (3 June 2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/06/03/lecons-de-tenebres">"Leçons de ténèbres"</a>. <i>The New Yorker</i>. Vol.&#160;89, no.&#160;16. p.&#160;64.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=The+New+Yorker&amp;rft.atitle=Le%C3%A7ons+de+t%C3%A9n%C3%A8bres&amp;rft.volume=89&amp;rft.issue=16&amp;rft.pages=64&amp;rft.date=2013-06-03&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newyorker.com%2Fmagazine%2F2013%2F06%2F03%2Flecons-de-tenebres&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Rounded with a sleep </td> <td>2014 </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive2015" class="citation journal cs1">James, Clive (16 March 2015). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/rounded-with-a-sleep/">"Rounded with a sleep"</a>. <i>The Times Literary Supplement</i>. <b>5810</b>: 4.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=The+Times+Literary+Supplement&amp;rft.atitle=Rounded+with+a+sleep&amp;rft.volume=5810&amp;rft.pages=4&amp;rft.date=2015-03-16&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.the-tls.co.uk%2Farticles%2Fpublic%2Frounded-with-a-sleep%2F&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Star system </td> <td>2015 </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive2015" class="citation magazine cs1">James, Clive (16 March 2015). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/03/16/star-system">"Star system"</a>. <i>The New Yorker</i>. Vol.&#160;91, no.&#160;4. pp.&#160;<span class="nowrap">50–</span>51.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=The+New+Yorker&amp;rft.atitle=Star+system&amp;rft.volume=91&amp;rft.issue=4&amp;rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E50-%3C%2Fspan%3E51&amp;rft.date=2015-03-16&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newyorker.com%2Fmagazine%2F2015%2F03%2F16%2Fstar-system&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Visitation of the dove </td> <td>2015 </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive2015" class="citation magazine cs1">James, Clive (7 December 2015). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/12/07/visitation-of-the-dove">"Visitation of the dove"</a>. <i>The New Yorker</i>. Vol.&#160;91, no.&#160;39. p.&#160;50.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=The+New+Yorker&amp;rft.atitle=Visitation+of+the+dove&amp;rft.volume=91&amp;rft.issue=39&amp;rft.pages=50&amp;rft.date=2015-12-07&amp;rft.au=James%2C+Clive&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newyorker.com%2Fmagazine%2F2015%2F12%2F07%2Fvisitation-of-the-dove&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Initial outlay </td> <td>2016 </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJames,_Clive2016" class="citation journal cs1">James, Clive (January–February 2016). 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Retrieved 28 November 2019.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWatersonCain2019" class="citation web cs1">Waterson, Jim; Cain, Sian (27 November 2019). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/nov/27/clive-james-writer-broadcaster-and-tv-critic-dies-aged-80">"Clive James, writer, broadcaster and TV critic, dies aged 80"</a>. <i>The Guardian</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=The+Guardian&amp;rft.atitle=Clive+James%2C+writer%2C+broadcaster+and+TV+critic%2C+dies+aged+80&amp;rft.date=2019-11-27&amp;rft.aulast=Waterson&amp;rft.aufirst=Jim&amp;rft.au=Cain%2C+Sian&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fculture%2F2019%2Fnov%2F27%2Fclive-james-writer-broadcaster-and-tv-critic-dies-aged-80&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-James,_C._1981,_p.29-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-James,_C._1981,_p.29_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-James,_C._1981,_p.29_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">James, C., <i>Unreliable Memoirs</i>, Pan Books, 1981, p. 29.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/01/world/europe/prolific-writer-clive-james-facing-death-reflects-on-getting-a-few-things-done.html?_r=0">"A Writer Whose Pen Never Rests, Even Facing Death"</a>. <i>The New York Times</i>. 31 October 2014. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170807195112/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/01/world/europe/prolific-writer-clive-james-facing-death-reflects-on-getting-a-few-things-done.html?_r=0">Archived</a> from the original on 7 August 2017<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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I could use up a lifetime's supply of anything in two weeks'"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180731074532/https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/may/25/g2-interview-clive-james-television">Archived</a> 31 July 2018 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, <i>The Guardian</i>, 25 May 2009.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">"James, Clive Vivian Leopold". <i>Who's Who 2019</i>. 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London. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/clive_james/article1771920.ece">the original</a> on 16 May 2008<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">30 April</span> 2010</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=The+Times&amp;rft.atitle=Culture+vulture&amp;rft.date=2007-05-12&amp;rft.aulast=Haynes&amp;rft.aufirst=Deborah&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fentertainment.timesonline.co.uk%2Ftol%2Farts_and_entertainment%2Fbooks%2Fclive_james%2Farticle1771920.ece&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-69"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-69">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWindschuttle2019" class="citation web cs1">Windschuttle, Keith (29 November 2019). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2014/05/clive-james-reg-gasnier/">"Clive James and that 'Australian tone of voice'<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span>"</a>. <i>Quadrant Online</i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191209141801/https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2014/05/clive-james-reg-gasnier/">Archived</a> from the original on 9 December 2019<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">30 November</span> 2019</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=Quadrant+Online&amp;rft.atitle=Clive+James+and+that+%27Australian+tone+of+voice%27&amp;rft.date=2019-11-29&amp;rft.aulast=Windschuttle&amp;rft.aufirst=Keith&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fquadrant.org.au%2Fopinion%2Fqed%2F2014%2F05%2Fclive-james-reg-gasnier%2F&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-70"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-70">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/clive-james-replaces-fatty-20050623-gdlk9u.html">"Clive James replaces Fatty"</a>. <i>The Sydney Morning Herald</i>. 23 June 2005. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191209141801/https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/clive-james-replaces-fatty-20050623-gdlk9u.html">Archived</a> from the original on 9 December 2019<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">30 November</span> 2019</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=The+Sydney+Morning+Herald&amp;rft.atitle=Clive+James+replaces+Fatty&amp;rft.date=2005-06-23&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.smh.com.au%2Fsport%2Fnrl%2Fclive-james-replaces-fatty-20050623-gdlk9u.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-71"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-71">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Clive James, <i>May Week Was in June,</i>(1990) Picador 1991 p.230'I also installed my ashtray: a hubcap off a Bedford van, it could hold the stubs of eighty cigarettes, so I only had to empty it once a day.'</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-72"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-72">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Clive James, <i>North Face of Soho,</i> Picador 2006 p.141:'I smoked so much that I needed the hubcap of a Bedford van as an ashtray. I had found the hubcap lying in the gutter of Trumpington Street, and thought: 'That will make an ideal ashtray.'</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-73"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-73">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Contrary to this, Clive James stated in BBC Radio's <i>The Museum of Curiosity</i> Series 2: Episode 6, "I once used the hubcap of a British Bedford DorMobile as an ashtray because I smoked a lot, but not even I could fill up the hubcap of a British Bedford DorMobile..."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-74"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-74">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.clivejames.com/node/578">Smoking the Memory | clivejames.com</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080512060733/http://www.clivejames.com/node/578">Archived</a> 12 May 2008 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> In <i>A Point of View</i> he notes that this account of giving up smoking needed updating as he had gone back to it.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-75"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-75">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6929670.stm">"Smoking, my lost love"</a>. <i>BBC News</i>. 3 August 2007. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090117014903/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6929670.stm">Archived</a> from the original on 17 January 2009<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">3 May</span> 2011</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=BBC+News&amp;rft.atitle=Smoking%2C+my+lost+love&amp;rft.date=2007-08-03&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.bbc.co.uk%2F1%2Fhi%2Fmagazine%2F6929670.stm&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-76"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-76">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/clive-james-battles-leukemia-20110430-1e1p0.html">"Clive James battles leukaemia"</a>. <i>Sydney Morning Herald</i>. April 2011. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110501103348/http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/clive-james-battles-leukemia-20110430-1e1p0.html">Archived</a> from the original on 1 May 2011<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">30 April</span> 2011</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=Sydney+Morning+Herald&amp;rft.atitle=Clive+James+battles+leukaemia&amp;rft.date=2011-04&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.smh.com.au%2Fbreaking-news-national%2Fclive-james-battles-leukemia-20110430-1e1p0.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-77"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-77">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/news/clive-james-i-am-dying-i-am-near-the-end-16175362.html">"Clive James tells BBC "I am dying, I am near the end"<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span>"</a>. <i>Belfast Telegraph</i>. 21 June 2012. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120624081149/http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/news/clive-james-i-am-dying-i-am-near-the-end-16175362.html">Archived</a> from the original on 24 June 2012<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">26 June</span> 2012</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=BBC+News%3A+Entertainment+and+Arts&amp;rft.atitle=Clive+James%3A+%27I%27m+getting+near+the+end%27&amp;rft.date=2012-06-21&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fentertainment-arts-18532310&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-KerrOABCSep2013-79"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-KerrOABCSep2013_79-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-KerrOABCSep2013_79-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-03/clive-james-reflects-on-confronting-his-mortality/4929264">"Clive James reflects on career, poetry and death in interview with Kerry O'Brien"</a>. <i>ABC News</i>. 7 September 2013. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191128130305/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-03/clive-james-reflects-on-confronting-his-mortality/4929264">Archived</a> from the original on 28 November 2019<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">28 November</span> 2019</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=ABC+News&amp;rft.atitle=Clive+James+reflects+on+career%2C+poetry+and+death+in+interview+with+Kerry+O%27Brien&amp;rft.date=2013-09-07&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abc.net.au%2Fnews%2F2013-09-03%2Fclive-james-reflects-on-confronting-his-mortality%2F4929264&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-80"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-80">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-28/clive-james-japanese-maple-lucy-fahey-poem/11745902">"Clive James reads his farewell poem, Japanese Maple, in this tribute by animator Lucy Fahey"</a>. <i>ABC News</i>. 28 November 2019. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191128045440/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-28/clive-james-japanese-maple-lucy-fahey-poem/11745902">Archived</a> from the original on 28 November 2019<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">28 November</span> 2019</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=ABC+News&amp;rft.atitle=Clive+James+reads+his+farewell+poem%2C+Japanese+Maple%2C+in+this+tribute+by+animator+Lucy+Fahey&amp;rft.date=2019-11-28&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abc.net.au%2Fnews%2F2019-11-28%2Fclive-james-japanese-maple-lucy-fahey-poem%2F11745902&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-81"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-81">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/27/obituaries/japanese-maple-clive-james-poem.html">"<span class="cs1-kern-left"></span>'Japanese Maple' by Clive James"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>. 27 November 2019. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191129010935/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/27/obituaries/japanese-maple-clive-james-poem.html">Archived</a> from the original on 29 November 2019<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">29 November</span> 2019</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&amp;rft.atitle=%27Japanese+Maple%27+by+Clive+James&amp;rft.date=2019-11-27&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2019%2F11%2F27%2Fobituaries%2Fjapanese-maple-clive-james-poem.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Stayt-82"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Stayt_82-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation audio-visual cs1">Clive James; <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Stayt" title="Charlie Stayt">Charlie Stayt</a> (31 March 2015). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-32127897"><i>Clive James 'near to death but thankful for life'<span></span></i></a> (Video). London: <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160323180134/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-32127897">Archived</a> from the original on 23 March 2016<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">29 May</span> 2016</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=The+Guardian&amp;rft.atitle=Clive+James%3A+%27Still+being+alive+is+embarrassing&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fculture%2F2015%2Foct%2F10%2Fclive-james-still-being-alive-is-embarrassing&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-84"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-84">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/series/reports-of-my-death">"Reports of my death"</a>. <i>The Guardian</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">28 November</span> 2019</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=Clive+james&amp;rft.atitle=The+Metropolitan+Critic&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.clivejames.com%2Fthe-metropolitan-critic.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clive_James&amp;action=edit&amp;section=26" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1;min-width:0}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output .side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237033735">@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox{display:none!important}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}</style><div class="side-box side-box-right plainlinks sistersitebox"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wikiquote-logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Wikiquote-logo.svg/34px-Wikiquote-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="34" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Wikiquote-logo.svg/51px-Wikiquote-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Wikiquote-logo.svg/68px-Wikiquote-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="355" /></a></span></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist">Wikiquote has quotations related to <i><b><a href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:Search/Clive_James" class="extiw" title="q:Special:Search/Clive James">Clive James</a></b></i>.</div></div> </div> <ul><li><span class="official-website"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.clivejames.com">Official website</a></span></span>, includes a video section of James's recorded video interviews with artists, writers, filmmakers and actors at the other end of the sofa at his London home.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190305070706/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba03df344">"Clive James – Filmography"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/BFI" class="mw-redirect" title="BFI">BFI</a></i>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba03df344">the original</a> on 5 March 2019<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">1 March</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=New+Statesman&amp;rft.atitle=The+NS+interview%3A+Clive+James&amp;rft.date=2010-02-04&amp;rft.aulast=McDonald&amp;rft.aufirst=Alyssa&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newstatesman.com%2Fideas%2F2010%2F02%2Fhitler-youth-forage-caps-wore&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.norepublic.com.au/index.php?Itemid=4&amp;id=1000&amp;option=com_content&amp;task=view">"Freedom Wears a Crown: Clive James"</a>, <a href="/wiki/Australians_for_Constitutional_Monarchy" title="Australians for Constitutional Monarchy">Australians for Constitutional Monarchy</a>, 28 August 2007</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/james-saves-the-queen/2007/08/25/1187462538113.html">"James Saves the Queen"</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Age" title="The Age">The Age</a>, 25 August 2007</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation episode cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bw5d0z">"When Mary Beard Met Clive James"</a>. <i>Front Row Late</i>. 21 December 2018. BBC<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">1 March</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.btitle=Front+Row+Late&amp;rft.date=2018-12-21&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fprogrammes%2Fb0bw5d0z&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span> (<i>Currently unavailable</i>).</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13437293">"Clive James obituary: 'A man of substance'<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span>"</a>. <i>BBC</i>. 27 November 2019<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">1 March</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=BBC&amp;rft.atitle=Clive+James+obituary%3A+%27A+man+of+substance%27&amp;rft.date=2019-11-27&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fentertainment-arts-13437293&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AClive+James" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFidler2012" class="citation podcast cs1">Fidler, Richard (12 September 2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/conversations/raconteur-clive-james-reflects-on-a-rich-and-prolific-career/7756818">"Raconteur Clive James reflects on a rich and prolific career"</a>. <i>ABC</i> (Podcast)<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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