A new collection of deeply moving and life-affirming poems from one of our most cherished, critically acclaimed and bestselling writers
Clive James is the multi-million-copy bestselling author of more than forty books. His poetry collection Sentenced to Life and his translation of Dante's The Divine Comedy were both Sunday Times top ten bestsellers, and his collections of verse have been shortlisted for many prizes. In 2012 he was appointed CBE and in 2013 an Officer of the Order of Australia.
James as always been a fine poet with a considerable mastery of
traditional forms as well as a marked capacity for the elegiac . .
. But the peculiar and defining quality of Injury Time is that the
sense of mortality is all at once intense and leisurely . . . this
is not the verse of a part-time player, this is the work of a man
who presents himself as having nothing but poetry left . . . Injury
Time is a significant achievement and lasting testament to a man
who is a marvel of a wordsmith and who in the face of a death
sentence that has allowed him injury time has written some of his
best poems . . . this is a book by a true artist. It will ring in
the ears and tug at the heart of any reader
*The Australian*
A worthy successor to his 2015 collection, Sentenced to Life . . .
Injury Time, on the whole, reminds us that James is, and has always
been, a poet of clarity and control. His mastery of metre and rhyme
is indisputable . . . Some of the more personal ones about his
looming-but-deferred death have so much in common with the tone and
diction of late poems by John Donne that it can seem as if the
intervening four centuries had never happened . . . If Injury Time
proves to be James' last collection (as it well may not) it will be
a more than memorable testament to have left behind
*Sydney Morning Herald*
James's confrontation with his approaching death is nothing short
of inspirational
*Independent*
A fresh volume of poetry describing the joys of the bonus years the
great polymath has been given by medicine, determination and
love
*Evening Standard*
James has approached the time of his vanishing with grace and good
humour, not sentimentality or anger. These poems are death-haunted
but radiant with the felt experience of what it means to be
alive
*Financial Times*
Here are these amazing works, highly praised, technically and
emotionally heart-stopping poems reflecting gratefully on a life .
. . James's famous voice twinkles even in his weakened state
*Spectator*
James's recent poems . . . represent the very best work James has
ever done in verse
*New Republic*
Injury Time heads the latest/last collection of his poems, which
are rightly heralded as 'a major literary event'. Though the
title’s sporting metaphor is characteristic, it has very little to
do with 'sport'. The poems are as widely ranging and inventive as
ever, both in their form and their content. They range daringly
from a splendidly substantial celebration of the deaf Beethoven to
various self-revealing meditations on his own carcinoma. The latter
can be admired at full strength in 'Night-Walkers Song', but his
playful wit and imagination are as ever wonderfully varied
*Times Literary Supplement - Books of the Year 2017*
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