Writer's
Walk
Clive James (geb. 1939)
In Sydney
Harbour ... the yachts will be racing
on the crushed diamond water under a sky
the texture of powdered sapphires. It would be
churlish not to concede that the same abundance
of natural blessings which gave us the energy
to leave has every right to call us back.
Unreliable Memoirs
(1980) |
Born in Sydney, Clive James settled in London in the
early 1960s and became known as a tv and literary critic,
poet, novelist and broadcaster.
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