Welcome to Clive Bush’s website

Emeritus Professor Clive Bush taught for 24 years at the University of Warwick, and at the  former graduate  Institute of American Studies, University of London.  For fourteen years he taught full-time at King’s College, London. where he was Chair of the English Department.

To the right is the cover of his last academic  monograph: The Century’s Midnight

The cover is a water colour of Jackson Pollock’s War of 1947 from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

You can find detailed information on this book by clicking on the image of the Book’s jacket to the left.

 Lingerings of the Large Day, with drawings by Allen Fisher,  was published, in November, 2014, by Five Seasons Press, Hereford.

 

Click on the image of the Book’s jacket to the left to read a review.

Arioso, published by Five Seasons Press in 2019, is a long poem in three parts.  It engages with contemporary issues of ecology, and capitalism. The author draws on his early love of natural history and the Wiltshire of the chalk downs to give a more personal sense of the way these issues are felt and experienced