{"product_id":"9781037406478-light-as-it-grows-dark-the-last-poems-of-clive-james","title":"The Light as it Grows Dark","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Last Poems of Clive James\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA collection of the final poems from beloved Australian writer Clive James.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBeautiful and deeply meditative poems on illness, ageing, legacy and death from one of Australia’s finest writers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo be a long time dying is largely a phenomenon of modern medicine. \u003ci\u003eThe Light As It Grows Dark\u003c\/i\u003e is reportage from this new country; hard-won revelations about the journey’s end: ‘This insane last phase\/ When everything about you goes downhill.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA poet long before he was a journalist or broadcaster, Clive James was 70 when his health irretrievably broke down, and his world contracted to a single book-lined room looking out on a small walled garden. Every detail in this restricted orbit seemed to be filled with meaning, and he found that once again poems began, unstoppably, to flow.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAdmitting fear and resisting self-pity, he meditated on the nature of life when its end is in view. ‘The light as it grows dark has come for you \/ to comfort you . Your life has turned to look you in the face.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA capstone to James’s extraordinary career,\u003ci\u003e The Light As It Grows Dark\u003c\/i\u003e is a wry, tender, unsentimental companion for all those who will find themselves, at some point, towards the end of their lives, which is to say for all of us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56802164408694,"sku":"9781037406478","price":13.06,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_40575512_7b394952-1825-48b1-b411-c305b2482dc6.jpg?v=1775099146","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781037406478-light-as-it-grows-dark-the-last-poems-of-clive-james","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}