[New-Poetry] Just another day at the office

[TheOldMole]

Over the past 50 years, Clive James has worked as a British television 
personality; a radio broadcaster; a travel writer; a trainee bus 
conductor; a book reviewer for major publications in the United States, 
Britain and his native Australia; a flunky in a machine shop; a 
recording artist (the six albums he wrote in the 1970s with the 
singer-songwriter Pete Atkin are cult classics); a sports­writer; a book 
shelver; an art critic; a prose elegist for Diana, Princess of Wales 
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/d/princess_of_wales_diana/index.html?inline=nyt-per> 
(“I am appearing ridiculous now, but it is part of the ceremony, is it 
not?”); and, naturally, a circus roustabout. He has also, all along and 
not entirely coincidentally, been a poet. While that last fact is well 
known in Britain and Australia, James’s new book, Opal Sunset: Selected 
Poems, 1958-2008 (Norton, $25.95), is the first volume of his poetry to 
be published in the United States.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/books/review/Orr2-t.html?ref=review

-- 
Tad Richards
http://www.opus40.org/tadrichards/
http://opusforty.blogspot.com/

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