TCW New Year reads: Clive James’s finale
The Fire of Joy by Clive James; Picador, 2020 CLIVE James, eyesight impaired by surgery, was unable to read when he began composing The Fire of Joy, and he knew he was not far from death. This 300-page book is a semi-autobiographical salute to his great original love – poetry. He knew the 80-ish poems in the book […]