a television personality and a poet, a memoirist who befriended Princess Diana . . . and an erudite critic, a regular in England's most important literary journals. Yet his own fame, as what the English call a TV presenter, ruined his reputation: "As a show business name, I was crossed off the list of the serious."But American audiences have hardly heard of him. Presented now with Opal Sunset: Selected Poems 1958-2008, we should be able to read his poetry on its own merits, free from visions of "Saturday Night Clive."
from Powells: Review-A-Day: A Lively, Engaging Volume Marred by A Tendency to Trade Poetic Insights for "Sayableness"
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