The River in the Sky by Clive JamesA single book length poem, The River in the Sky sees Clive James face up to his final moments of life with all the wisdom, lightly worn erudition and good humour that defined his extraordinary career. Close to death for a number of years, Clive James wrote about the experience in a series of deeply moving poems. In this volume, we find him in ill health but high spirits. Though his body found him bound to his Cambridge home, his mind was free to roam.