RIP Clive James

[Eoin McLove]

I read Unreliable Memoirs when I was a young lad and it cracked me up.  I may have read another of the Memoir series back then too but it wasn't until this year I picked up anything by him again,  River in the Sky,  which has turned out to be his final work, a really nice, rambling poem that takes in modern history,  antiquity and his own life story.  It's a lovely jumble of ideas that unfolds in a stream of conscious kind of way. A fitting epitaph.  He died today aged 80 after a decade of outsmarting cancer. I just watched an interview with him that was made this year and he seemed to retain his sense of humour in the face of his imminent death which is good to see.

RIP.

[Carnage]

He was always both interesting and entertaining, that's for sure. Never read anything of his but his travel programmes were good viewing, as were his interviews.

[Eoin McLove]

Yeah,  he covered lot of ground in his professional career.  A life well lived by the looks of it.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

One of the best TV personalities of my youth. His death has been a long time coming, but following his own sporadic written accounts of this process in the Guardian has been engaging. Must pick up his epic poem swan song.

[mickO)))]

I never knew he was Australian. Never got into him myself but I always remember my mother and father watching him on ITV I think it was when I was a child.

[Juggz]

I used to love his TV work, a very funny man with a very sharp mind.