Like a row of books by Faber
Peter Porter, 22 January 1987
Other Passports: Poems 1958-1985
by Clive James.
Cape, 221 pp., £9.95, November 1986,0 224 02422 1 Show More
by Clive James.
Cape, 221 pp., £9.95, November 1986,
“... then had become, and was to remain for many years, his creed. Interestingly, this poem for Russell Davies, written while filming with Barry Humphries in Cardiff, is couched in rhyme royal, a stanza which is a Manx-cat version of ottava rima, though it may well predate it, having been used by Chaucer. Auden also decided on rhyme royal for ‘Letter to Lord ... ”