{"product_id":"9781037406478","title":"The Light as it Grows Dark : The Last Poems of Clive James","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): James, Clive \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 08\/10\/2026,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 128 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781037406478,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeautiful and deeply meditative poems on illness, ageing, legacy and death from one of Australia’s finest writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo be a long time dying is largely a phenomenon of modern medicine. The Light As It Grows Dark is reportage from this new country; hard-won revelations about the journey’s end: ‘This insane last phase\/ When everything about you goes downhill.’A 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Light As It Grows Dark 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","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57530190102901,"sku":"9781037406478","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781037406478.jpg?v=1787906723","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9781037406478","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}