# The Book of My Enemy

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- Book: [The Book of My Enemy](https://www.bookquiver.com/clive-james/the-book-of-my-enemy) ([The Book of My Enemy.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/clive-james/the-book-of-my-enemy.md))
- Authors: [Clive James](https://www.bookquiver.com/clive-james)
- Publisher: picador
- ISBN: 978-14-4724-832-3
- Pages: 464
- Published: 2013-09-26
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Reading these poems is like listening to a talking book, which infests the poems with personality, with that familiar braggadocio, that strictly upbeat delivery . . . The poems here have skip, insights, timing and agreeable passion