Nefertiti in the Flak Tower
12 April 2012
Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
Collecting verse written in the years 2008–2011, Nefertiti in the Flak Tower sees Clive James approach his later years with the same technical versatility, emotional poignancy and lightly-worn erudition as defined his career.
Across a breathtaking range of themes, there are moving elegies, a meditation on the later W.B. Yeats, a Hollywood Iliad, odes to rare orchids, wartime typewriters and sharks...
Details
12 April 2012
96 pages
9781447207009
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Clive James is a true poetPeter Porter, London Review of Books