Showing posts with label Clive James. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Clive James. Show all posts

Tuesday, 9 December 2014

BS Detector

Like abstract painting... abstract poetry extended the range over which incompetence would fail to declare itself.
- Clive James, Poetry Notebook, 2006-2014 (in Literary Review December 2014/January 2015)

Monday, 27 January 2014

Perfectly bad militar-ism

Baudelaire, in Mon cœur mis à nu, warned us that journalists with a fondness for military metaphors were proving their un-warlike nature.
- Clive James, in The Monthly