An expatriate Australian broadcast personality and author of cultural criticism, memoir, fiction, travelogue and poetry. Translator of Dante.
Books in order of publication:
Visions Before Midnight | 1977 |
Unreliable Memoirs (Unreliable Memoirs # 1) | 1980 |
The Crystal Bucket: Television Criticism from “The Observer,” 1976-79 | 1981 |
Glued to the Box: Television Criticism from The Observer, 1979–82 | 1982 |
Brilliant Creatures | 1983 |
Falling Towards England (Unreliable Memoirs # 2) | 1985 |
Flying Visits: Postcards From The Observer 1976-83 (Picador Books) | 1985 |
Snakecharmers in Texas | 1988 |
May Week Was in June (Unreliable Memoirs # 3) | 1990 |
Brrm! Brrm! | 1991 |
Clive James on Television: Criticism from the Observer, 1972–1982 | 1991 |
The Silver Castle | 1996 |
Reliable Essays: The Best of Clive James | 2001 |
Even As We Speak: New Essays 1993-2001 | 2001 |
As of This Writing: The Essential Essays, 1968-2002 | 2003 |
The Meaning of Recognition | 2005 |
North Face of Soho (Unreliable Memoirs # 4) | 2006 |
Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts | 2007 |
Opal Sunset: Selected Poems, 1958-2008 | 2008 |
The Blaze of Obscurity (Unreliable Memoirs #5) | 2009 |
The Revolt of the Pendulum: Essays 2005-2008 | 2009 |
A Point of View | 2011 |
Nefertiti in the Flak Tower: Poems | 2012 |
Cultural Cohesion: The Essential Essays | 2013 |
The Divine Comedy | 2013 |
Poetry Notebook: 2006–2014 | 2014 |
Latest Readings | 2015 |
Inferno | 2015 |
Sentenced to Life: Poems | 2015 |
Poetry Notebook: Reflections on the Intensity of Language | 2015 |
Play All: A Bingewatcher’s Notebook | 2016 |
Injury Time | 2017 |
The River in the Sky | 2018 |
Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin | 2019 |