[78] He smoked 80 cigarettes a day for a number of years before giving up in 2005. [69][70] From then he mainly declined to comment about their friendship, apart from some remarks in his fifth volume of memoirs, Blaze of Obscurity. He has died at 80 in England.

[63], James was a lifelong fan of the St George Dragons and wrote admiringly of Rugby League Immortal Reg Gasnier who was a schoolmate at Sydney Technical High School. “Perhaps because the reward for success was freedom, I thought of poetry, forever afterwards, as my ticket out: the equivalent of hiding in the laundry in the truck out of the prison camp .

[7], In 1962, James moved to England, which became his home for the rest of his life. Despite the success of the tour, there were no more recordings by Atkin, who pursued other opportunities and eventually became a BBC radio producer. [63][64], In 1968, at Cambridge,[65] James married Prudence A. James subsequently hosted the ITV show Clive James on Television, in which he showcased unusual or (often unintentionally) amusing television programmes from around the world, notably the Japanese TV show Endurance. [50], In 1992, James was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM). Though he could play the part of cracker-barrel philosopher, his reputation for folksiness was largely foisted on him by those who had a vested interest in the oblique and wanted poetry to be taught rather than remembered. The most corrosive enemy of his reputation, though, was the silence of critics to whom his clarity left nothing they could add. While there, he contributed to all the undergraduate periodicals, was a member and later President of the Cambridge Footlights, and appeared on University Challenge as captain of the Pembroke team, beating St Hilda's, Oxford, but losing to Balliol on the last question in a tied game. [43] In December 2009, James talked about the P-51 Mustang and other American fighter aircraft of World War II in The Museum of Curiosity on BBC Radio 4. [23], He published four mock-heroic poems – The Fate of Felicity Fark in the Land of the Media: a moral poem (1975), Peregrine Prykke's Pilgrimage Through the London Literary World (1976), Britannia Bright's Bewilderment in the Wilderness of Westminster (1976) and Charles Charming's Challenges on the Pathway to the Throne (1981) – and one long autobiographical epic, The River in the Sky (2018).

[16][17] Selections from the column were published in three books – Visions Before Midnight, The Crystal Bucket and Glued to the Box – and finally in a compendium, On Television. If I had been blessed with a normal career as a poet, there would have been a slim volume every few years. Luckily the mistake has been corrected since, and a compendium which restores the original groupings is now available: but it was a close-run thing, because the design of each slim volume was critical to its overall effect. Although he survived the prisoner-of-war camp, he died when the American B-24 carrying him and other freed allied POWs ran into the tail of a typhoon en route from Okinawa to Manila, and crashed into the mountains of southeastern Taiwan.

The trick with the Collected Poems is to avoid the longer poems until the shorter ones have taken over your mind. Clive James (b. Registered No. James wrote the album sleeve notes, which mostly linked the songs with thinly disguised jibes at popular artists and trends. James gained a place at Pembroke College, Cambridge, to read English literature. [74], For much of his early life, James was a heavy drinker and smoker. [4][10], He was educated at Sydney Technical High School (despite winning a bursary award to Sydney Boys High School) and the University of Sydney, where he studied English and psychology from 1957 to 1960, and became associated with the Sydney Push, a libertarian intellectual subculture. [3] He achieved mainstream success in the UK first as a writer for television, and eventually as the lead in his own programmes, including ...on Television. He wrote, however, “I can only wonder, looking back, if my name as a poet might not have made quicker progress had I been less notorious for the other things.”. [6] He was buried at Sai Wan War Cemetery in Hong Kong. His career as a poet continued alongside work that is, perhaps, more high-profile – he was the author of more than thirty books, a well-known journalist and critic, and a familiar face from television – but his biography includes the literary editorship of his university paper, honorary degrees from the universities of Sydney and East Anglia, and the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal. [25], James acknowledged the importance of the Midnight Voices group in bringing to wider attention the lyric-writing aspect of his career. [51] In 2003 he was awarded the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal for Literature. [8], James, an only child, was brought up by his mother (Minora May, née Darke), a factory worker,[9] in the Sydney suburbs of Kogarah and Jannali, living some years with his English maternal grandfather. This allows for creative misleadings; the Blade Runner reference of ‘Deckard Was a Replicant’ suggests a poem based on film criticism, but in fact the piece that follows touches on nature, ageing, love and art.

It includes an excerpt on Sydney Harbour from Unreliable Memoirs. He was at times merciless. [79], In April 2011, after media speculation that he had suffered kidney failure,[80] James confirmed in June 2012 that B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia "had beaten him" and that he was "near the end".

Picador has announced "with great sadness" news of the death of Clive James, who passed away peacefully at home on Sunday 24th November after a long illness, aged 80. Selections from the column were published in three books – Visions Before Midnight, The Crystal Bucket and Glued to the Box– and finally in a compendium, On Television. Safely in hand, the light but weighty volume reminds us that a few individual poems are where a reputation starts from. [55], James is celebrated with a plaque on the Sydney Writers Walk on Circular Quay. At his school in the Sydney suburbs in the 1950s, no pupil was allowed to go home before he had stood by his desk and recited a poem. Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, SE1 9GF. Vivian Leopold "Clive" James CBE, AM (born 7 October 1939) is an Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet and memoirist, best known for his autobiographical series Unreliable Memoirs, for his chat shows and documentaries on British television and for his prolific journalism.

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(In the US the book was called On This Island, from another part of the title poem’s first line.) Clive James shares the poetry books that continue to inspire him, from Yeats to Larkin and Auden. A revival of interest in the songs in the late 1990s, triggered largely by the creation by Steve Birkill of an Internet mailing list "Midnight Voices" in 1997, led to the reissue of the six albums on CD between 1997 and 2001, as well as live performances by the pair. [34], In the mid-1980s, James featured in a travel programme called Clive James in... (beginning with Clive James Live in Las Vegas) for LWT (now ITV) and later switched to BBC, where he continued producing travel programmes, this time called Clive James's Postcard from... (beginning with Clive James's Postcard from Miami) – these also eventually transferred to ITV. Clive James AO CBE FRSL (born Vivian Leopold James; 7 October 1939 – 24 November 2019) was an Australian critic, journalist, broadcaster and writer who lived and worked in the United Kingdom from 1962 until his death in 2019. Mark Lawson described a James review as "so funny it was dangerous to read while holding a hot drink".

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