Peregrine Prykke was the name of a keen young critic, fresh to the 'London literary world'of the early 1970s, whose wide-eyed 'pilgrimage' around pubs, parties and poetry magazines was recorded in rhyming couplets by Clive James in 1974, reissued in an 'improved version' in 1976 and included in his 2003 collection, The Book of My Enemy.
It is the 1976 edition that has been on my desk for the past few days, the orange paper cover faded to white around the spine and a pencil inscription...
Published on July 15, 2010 04:55