{"product_id":"9781037406478","title":"The Light as it Grows Dark : The Last Poems of Clive James","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Clive James\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAustralia\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 8 October 2026 by PAN MACMILLAN (Macmillan) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 128 pages\u003cbr\u003e204 x 139 x 15 | 234g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeautiful and deeply meditative poems on illness, ageing, legacy and death from one of Australia’s finest writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo 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.’A 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Far From The Madding Crowd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49751620845827,"sku":"9781037406478","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0404\/3207\/4914\/files\/9781037406478.jpg?v=1791027111","url":"https:\/\/www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.com\/products\/9781037406478","provider":"Far From The Madding Crowd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}