1 Peter Porter, Dragons in their Pleasant Palaces, Oxford: OUP, 1997, pp. 19-20.

2 Clive James, The Book of My Enemy: Collected Verse 1958-2003, London: Pan Macmillan/Picador, 2003, p. 322.

3 Clive James, At the Pillars of Hercules: Critical Essays, London: Faber and Faber, 1979, p. 190.

4 ibid., p. 191.

5 ibid., p. 51.

6 ibid., p. 54.

7 ibid.

8 Peter Porter, Collected Poems, Vol. 1: 1961-1981, Oxford: OUP, 1999, pp. 198-200.

9 At the Pillars of Hercules, p. 59.

10 See Bruce Bennett, Spirit in Exile: Peter Porter and his Poetry, Melbourne: OUP, pp. 96-7.

11 Clive James, Snakecharmers in Texas: Essays 1980-87, London: Jonathan Cape, 1988, pp. 225-36.

12 ibid., p. 228.

13 ibid., p. 229.

14 See Ian Britain, Once an Australian: Journeys with Barry Humphries, Clive James, Germaine Greer and Robert Hughes, Melbourne: OUP, 1997, p. 117.

15 ibid. The recording was by Arista Records.

16 ibid., p. 117.

17 ibid.

18 Clive James, Even As We Speak: New Essays 1993-2001, London: Pan Macmillan/Picador, p. xiii.

19 ibid.

20 Clive James, From the Land of Shadows, London: Pan/Picador, p. 166.

21 Even As We Speak, p. xv.

22 ibid., p. xvi.

23 ibid., p. xvii.

24 14 April 1983; republished in Snakecharmers in Texas: Essays 1980-87, London: Jonathan Cape, pp. 49-57.

25 ibid., p.56.

26 ibid., p.54.

27 5 July 1996; republished in Even As We Speak, pp. 225-37.

28 ibid., p. 225.

29 Once an Australian, p. 117.

30 For example, in Even As We Speak, p. 254, James writes that Murdoch has cut himself off from Britain and Australia “in pursuit of some dreary post-capitalist Utopia in which the hunger to acquire is a spiritual value...”.

Clive James,Humour and Empire

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