Injury Time

<p><b>'James's confrontation with his approaching death is nothing short of inspirational' – Joan Bakewell, <i>Independent</i></b><br><br>The publication of Clive James's <i>Sentenced to Life</i> 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. <br><br><i>Injury Time</i>, following <i>Sentenced to Life</i>, 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 a