The Light as It Grows Dark
The Last Poems of Clive James
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- Hardcover
128 pages
- Release Date
2 February 2027
Summary
Following a terminal diagnosis and a confrontation with his approaching death, Clive James began to write furiously. Collected together for the first time in The Light as it Grows Dark, the poems which resulted from this unexpected late flowering address memory, ill health, ageing and legacy.
James at all times admits fear and refuses sentiment, meditating not only on the end of his life, but on the end of the writer’s life, one lived, by necessity, half in retrospect. ‘Look …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781037406478 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1037406478 |
| Author: | Clive James |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Macmillan |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 2 February 2027 |
| Weight: | 234g |
| Dimensions: | 15mm x 141mm x 208mm |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
These poems are death-haunted but radiant with the felt experience of what it means to be alive * Financial Times *
Wise, witty, terrifying, unflinching and extraordinarily alive – A. S. Byatt, Author Of Possession
Clive James
Clive James was the author of more than forty books, including essays, literary and television criticism, travel writing, verse, novels, and five volumes of autobiography: Unreliable Memoirs, Falling Towards England, May Week Was In June, North Face of Soho, and The Blaze of Obscurity.
As a television performer, he appeared regularly for both the BBC and ITV, most notably as writer and presenter of the Postcard series of travel documentaries. He published several poetry collections, including the Sunday Times bestseller Sentenced to Life, and a translation of Dante’s The Divine Comedy, which was also a Sunday Times bestseller.
In 1992, he was made a Member of the Order of Australia. In 2003, he was awarded the Philip Hodgins memorial medal for literature. He held honorary doctorates from Sydney University and the University of East Anglia. In 2012, he was appointed CBE, and in 2013, an Officer of the Order of Australia. He died in 2019.
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