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13 August 2015

“Candy Windows”: A new poem from Clive James

He made his name / From being bulletproof.

By Clive James

(Photo By Karoly Kernstok's Stained Glass Design for the Schiffer Villa, 1911.)

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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. 

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