Shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award 2009.
Costa Book Awards 2009 Judges' comment: "Beautifully written, intelligent, full of ideas clearly communicated and feelings perfectly encapsulated - these are proper poems with musical structure that are clever, moving and memorable."
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 4 December 2008.
Clive James is well know as a TV presenter and writer of prose but not everyone knows he has written poetry. Here in his third anthology he brings together poems written over the last five years. Definitely worth a look if you are a fan of Clive as these poems show his same inimitable style and charm.
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Well-known for his prose, as well as his TV appearances, Clive James has also established a name for himself in the world of poetry. His previous collections, Other Passports and The Book of My Enemy, were critically acclaimed and accomplished, yet simultaneously accessible and entertaining -- and his new book promises more of the same. Bringing together poems written over the last five years, Angels over Elsinore is impressive not only in terms of its execution, but also in terms of its scope and versatility.
Angels Over Elsinore features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Poetry, eBooks of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Recommendations
Angels Over Elsinore is available in Hardback
Angels Over Elsinore was written by Clive James and published by Pan Macmillan
