ARGONAUT BOOKS

In the last book he completed before he died, Clive James offers a personal guide to the poems he found it impossible to forget. Reviews A treasure trove of poetic pleasureThe TimesThe Fire of Joy is a proper pleasure. Fun and fight-picking, wise and persuasive. James loves a layman and, by the end, the layman certainly loves James . . . "It's a dipper," said my husband, reading over my shoulder. If I wasn't on review duty, that's the way I'd read it: dipping in at random, at bedtime, a poem a night.The Times - Laura FreemanThe Fire of Joy is a set of personal, quintessentia...Read More