Injury Time : Picador : 9781509852987 : 1509852980 : 06 Sep 2018 : The publication of Clive James's Sentenced to Life 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. Injury Time is its outstanding successor. 'James's confrontation with his approaching death is nothing short of inspirational' - Joan Bakewell, Independent With more time on the clock than he had anticipated, Clive James was 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 grew 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 acrobatic flight - James declares 'family' to be our greatest blessing. He also writes beautifully of the A