Clockfire XCVI By Jonathan Ball News, Uncategorized Some Clockfire love on the 95 Books blog: 96. Clockfire by Jonathan Ball I can only think of this book in terms of adjectives – grim, lecherous, brilliant, seductive, horrific! Each of the plays described by the poems are equally impossible and posit truly nightmare-ish possibilities. These poems linger! I have been thinking about them since the launch. My favorite is the one in which the sun explodes and the play has only eight minutes left to exist. Meghan Previous: Interview in The Manitoban Next: The Talking Cure