Injury time
James, Clive, 1939-2018
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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' finds James with more time on the clock than he had anticipated, and 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 grows 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 end'.
Main title:
Injury time / Clive James.
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Imprint:
London : Picador, 2018.
Collation:
xvi, 94 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2017.
ISBN:
9781509852987 (pbk)
Dewey class:
821.9'14821.914
Language:
English
BRN:
2658195
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