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21K views · 192 reactions | Broadcaster, critic and author Clive James talks life, death and poetry with Mary Beard for Front Row Late. Look out for longer versions on TV and BBC iPlayer. | BBC Arts | Facebook

Clive James (RIP) Clive James reading his poem Japanese Maple, filmed exclusively by QPF in his Cambridge home in March 2016. Presented by Queensland Poetry Festival, in association with McCullough Robertson Lawyers. Camera: Renee Vaughan Sutherland Editor: Jacob Schiotz ---------- Japanese Maple Your death, near now, is of an easy sort. So slow a fading out brings no real pain. Breath growing short Is just uncomfortable. You feel the drain Of energy, but thought and sight remain: Enhanced, in f

Clive James' poem Japanese Maple, a poignant rumination on his impending death, became a viral internet hit in 2014. In one of his last interviews, he told Mary Beard in 2018 what actually happened to that tree. When Mary Beard Met Clive James is on BBC iPlayer http://bit.ly/3S1qeSs | BBC Arts