Poetry 13 August 2015 “Candy Windows”: A new poem from Clive James He made his name / From being bulletproof. Karoly Kernstok's Stained Glass Design for the Schiffer Villa, 1911. Sign UpGet the New Statesman\'s Morning Call email. Sign-up *** Clive James’s latest poetry collection is Sentenced to Life (Picador). A non-fiction book, Latest Readings, will be published in August by Yale University Press. › How a new kind of fizz began with the dinosaurs Clive James (1939-2019) was an Australian author, critic, broadcaster and poet, best known for his autobiographical series Unreliable Memoirs, his chat shows on British television and his prolific journalism. He contributed several original poems to the New Statesman. This article appears in the 30 July 2015 issue of the New Statesman, Summer Double