Sunset Hails a Rising single work   poetry   "Dying by inches, I can hear the sound"
Issue Details: First known date: 2015... 2015 Sunset Hails a Rising
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Notes

  • Epigraph:

    O lente, lente currite noctis equi! –Marlow, after Ovid

    La mer, la mer, toujours recommencee. –Valery

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    y separately published work icon Sentenced to Life Clive James , Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 2015 8439954 2015 selected work poetry

    'In his new collection of poems - several of which have already become famous before their book publication - Clive James looks back over an extraordinarily rich life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty. There are regrets, but no trace of self-pity in these verses, which - for all their open dealings with death and illness - are primarily a celebration of what is treasurable and memorable in our time here.

    Again and again, James reminds us that he is not only a poet of effortless wit and lyric accomplishment: he is also an immensely wise one, who delights in using poetic form to bring a razor-sharp focus to his thought. Miraculously, these poems see James writing with his insight and energy not only undiminished but positively charged by his situation: Sentenced to Life represents a career high point from one of the greatest literary intelligences of the age.' (Publication summary)

    Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 2015
    pg. 56
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    y separately published work icon The Weekend Australian 30 November 2019 18464473 2019 newspaper issue 2019 pg. 31
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