Clive James
Mass Death Dies Hard
In an essay from the forthcoming book Climate Change: The Facts 2017 (Institute for Public Affairs), Clive James denounces climate alarmists
The Rest Is Silence
— or, Stroking Her Feet to Opus 131. A new poem.
New Poetry
A New Poem
Five New Poems
“One Elephant, Two Elephant” and four other new poems
Iliad!
From a fragment of an ancient manuscript recently discovered in the ruins of Los Angeles. Edited by Clive James
New Poems
Two New Poems
New Poems
Two new poems
The Drumming of an Army
The Australian floods were encapsulated by underrated national poet, Dorothea Mackellar, whose poem “My Country” best captured the post-diluvian mood
New Poems
Four new poems
New Poems
New Poems
Will the green agenda be killed off by the pandemic?
‘Will the green agenda be killed off by the longer-term coronavirus recovery? Or might the closure of so much business, and the cleaner air that results from planes not flying and factories not working, give us extra years to gain control of our environment?’
Why T.S. Eliot still matters
His contemporaries’ reputations have diminished. But Eliot’s has grown: he is the poet who shows us what can be saved from the ruins
Music’s in the house
Rappers have found a role in lockdown: chronicling coronavirus with topical tunes. Most people, though, are rushing to the safety of the past