Angels Over Elsinore: Collected Verse, 2003-2008 By Clive James

Librarian Note There is than one author in the GoodReads database with this name site_link See this thread for information An expatriate Australian broadcast personality and author of cultural criticism memoir fiction travelogue and poetry Translator of Dante Librarian Note There is than one author in the GoodReads database with this name site_link See this thread for information An expatriate Australian broadcast personality and author of cultural criticism memoir fiction travelogue and poetry Translator of Dante site_link 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 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 Collected Verse 2003 2008There are some good poems I liked here like one describing a walk Sunday Morning Walk and my favourite of the collection a reflection of childhood ending with the great lines Now we are old and the memories returning Are like the last stars that fade before the morning When we were Kids and several ones about Greek mythology. There is a strong theme of death in his works not surprising as it hovered over him around these times of writing with him contemplating it s dark emptiness or going to peoples funerals These are pessimistic and gloomy then anything but do have there poetry to them. But then there are others I found a bit off Like one I found tasteless about a suicide bomber going to heaven The Australian Suicide Bomber s Heavenly Reward and overly crude like one about a whales wedding tackle Bigger then a Man which in fact there are many overtly crude references in some of the work with either a poem featuring pigeon poo or a tree s sap looking like randy boys have had their way with it. So I found it mixed some I found inspired and others I found well less so Not really angelic 102 A witty contemporary anthology of poems which contain a healthy dose of cynicism about our world Some are moving some are fun and others just pick out that which is plainly daft 102

Angels Over Elsinore: Collected Verse, 2003-2008 By Clive James

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, There is also a mention of guardian columns being filled with mumbling drag queens in one of the poems Erm