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Ian Shircore's mission is to rescue Clive James's poems from the "poetry ghetto" and bring them to people who would never normally read poetry (and would certainly not pick up a book about poetry).

Clive wrote some real duds - not surprising in the course of a 60-year career and more than 300 poems. But he also hit some wonderful highs. And like every other writer, musician or artist, he deserves to be remembered for his greatest work, rather than some dull, actuarial average. Would you choose to judge The Beatles by Run For Your Life, Octopus's Garden and Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey, or by their finest creations, like Strawberry Fields, Blackbird and Please, Please Me?

Some of Clive's best poems are already ...more

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	Conspiracy 3.34 avg rating — 289 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Conspiracy!: 49 Reasons to Doubt, 50 Reasons to Believe 3.23 avg rating — 169 ratings — published 2012 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Conspiracy: The greatest cover-ups and unsolved mysteries 3.28 avg rating — 85 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Douglas Adams: The First and Lost Tapes 3.88 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	So Brightly at the Last: Clive James and the Passion for Poetry 4.13 avg rating — 23 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Loose Canon: The Extraordinary Songs of Clive James and Pete Atkin 4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Loose Canon: The Extraordinary Songs of Clive James and Pete Atkin by Ian Shircore (Goodreads Author), Stephen Fry (Foreword) 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	John F. Kennedy: The Life, the Presidency, the Assassination 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Idiot's Guide to Online Shopping UK 2001 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mastering the Internet by Ian Shircore (Goodreads Author), Richard Lander 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“What do you call a conspiracy theory that's backed up by evidence? Oh yes, a conspiracy”
― Ian Shircore

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“I'm a man. I have a 50/50 refrigerator. Half's what I'm going to eat. The rest's in there so it won't smell before I throw it away.”
― Ian Shircore

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“All conspiracy-spotting should start from the assumption
that even an almighty cock-up is always more likely than a
complex conspiracy.”
― Ian Shircore, Conspiracy!: 49 Reasons to Doubt, 50 Reasons to Believe

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