{"product_id":"light-as-it-grows-dark-8th-oct","title":"Light as It Grows Dark (8th Oct)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e : The Last Poems of Clive James\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘These poems are death-haunted but radiant with the felt experience of what it means to be alive’ - Financial Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘Wise, witty, terrifying, unflinching and extraordinarily alive’ - A. S. Byatt, Author Of Possession \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBeautiful and deeply meditative poems on illness, ageing, legacy and death from one of Australia’s finest writers. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book House (Thame)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56342255305089,"sku":null,"price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0280\/7873\/5421\/files\/9781037406478.jpg?v=1790869917","url":"https:\/\/shop.thebookhousethame.co.uk\/products\/light-as-it-grows-dark-8th-oct","provider":"The Book House Thame","version":"1.0","type":"link"}