Injury Time Clive James

Name: Injury Time Clive James
Author: Clive James
ISBN: 9781509852987

by Clive James

ISBN: 9781509852987

Published: 2018-09-06

Poetry

The publication of Clive James's Sentenced to Life was a major literary event. Facing the end, James looked back over his life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty to produce his finest work: poems of extraordinary power that spoke to our most elemental emotions. Injury Time is its outstanding successor. 'James's confrontation with his approaching death is nothing short of inspirational' - Joan Bakewell, Independent With more time on the clock than he had anticipated, Clive James was all the more determined to use it wisely - to capture the treasurable moment, and think about how best to live his remaining days - while the sense of his own impending absence grew all the more powerfully acute. In a series of intimate poems - from childhood memories of his mother, to a vision of his granddaughter in graceful acrobatic flight - James declares 'family' to be our greatest blessing. He also writes beautifully of the Australia where he began his life, and where he hopes to 'reach the...

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