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Issue Details: First known date: 2015... 2015 Necessary as Oxygen
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'Poetry ‘cannot be an ark to help us survive the flood’, wrote Zbigniew Herbert in 1948: ‘It has to be our daily bread, an article of primary need.’ Nothing could be more truly said of Clive James’s approach to poetry. His latest assemblage of essays, reviews, and miscellanea, collected over the years that straddle his diagnosis of leukemia, feel necessary as oxygen. There is a quiet restlessness too: a sense of sorting papers into some final order.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Australian Book Review ABR no. 368 January-February 2015 8258196 2015 periodical issue 2015 pg. 26-27
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