{"product_id":"9781037406478","title":"The Light as It Grows Dark","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBeautiful and deeply meditative poems on illness, ageing, legacy and death from one of Australia's finest writers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo be a long time dying is largely a phenomenon of modern medicine. \u003ci\u003eThe Light As It Grows Dark\u003c\/i\u003e is reportage from this new country; hard-won revelations about the journey's end: 'This insane last phase\/ When everything about you goes downhill.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Light As It Grows Dark\u003c\/i\u003e 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":"James, Clive","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58857625158006,"sku":"9781037406478","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1208\/4146\/files\/9781037406478.jpg?v=1790845513","url":"https:\/\/chepstowbooks.co.uk\/products\/9781037406478","provider":"Chepstow Books \u0026 Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}