Clive James Poems

Clive James Australian writer, journalist, and critic. His career began in literary criticism before he began working as a television critic in 1972. It’s here that he made his career. He wrote poetic epics including ‘The Fate of Felicity Fark in the land of media: a moral poem.’ 

Japanese Maple

by Clive James

‘Japanese Maple’ is one of several poems that Clive James published after learning about his terminal leukemia and emphysema diagnosis

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