{"product_id":"the-light-as-it-grows-dark-clive-james-9781037406478","title":"The Light As it Grows Dark","description":"Beautiful and deeply meditative poems on illness, ageing, legacy and death from one of Australia’s finest writers.\nTo 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.’\nA 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.\nAdmitting fear and resisting self-pity, he meditated on the nature of life when its end is in view. ‘The light as it grows dark has come for you \/ to comfort you . . . Your life has turned to look you in the face.’\nA capstone to James’s extraordinary career, The 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.","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67720206680352,"sku":"9781037406478","price":14.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9781037406478_3103793.jpg?v=1791656304","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/the-light-as-it-grows-dark-clive-james-9781037406478","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}