'James's confrontation with his approaching death is nothing short
of inspirational' - Joan Bakewell, Independent 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, following Sentenced to Life, 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'. Throughout Injury Time,
James weaves poems which reflect on the consolation and wisdom to
be found in the art, music and books which have become ever more
precious to him in his last years. The poems in this moving,
inspirational and unsentimental book are as accomplished as any he
has ever written; indeed the unexpected gift of James's Injury Time
shows him to be in the form of his life.
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