Böcker av Jeremy Clarke

Jeremy Clarke was first diagnosed with cancer in 2013. These columns cover the period from that shock diagnosis up until his death in May 2023. He chronicled his battle with the disease with humour and defiance, but never self-pity. He also met Catriona Olding in 2013. They would fall in love and eventually marry shortly before his death. He recounts this journey with tenderness and honesty. His columns cover life in Devon and then France, as well as drinking and occasional drug taking, his love of literature, and life itself, and are imbued with bathos, insight, and a finely honed sense of the absurd.

__In the hyperactive urban loud, the possibilities of slowness, a sense of the sacred seem like quaint curiosities or period pieces. They are not. There is a quiet, meticulous, fragile world that coexists with our own dailiness. We have the capacity for looking and listening to it. 'Highly recommended. These are lyric poems different from anything I've read before - full of transcendent music and vision. The extraordinary thing is how religious they feel without being religious in an obvious or conventional way. Intriguing!'- Tom Adair 'A spanish stonemason asks: when is a stone properly placed? And he answers his own question: when my impatience to once more readjust it has vanished. Jeremy Clarke writes like a spanish stonemason; his poems are housed, towers, bridges...'- John Berger 'To think, to feel, and then to tell of what we felt and thought is truly the work of the poet. But to speak about silence, to speak of the fullness of emptiness and the beauties, the subtleties of stillness in the presence of power, this is rare. Jeremy Clarke does this, with humility and grace, a timeless watching and working into being human on Earth, a telling of that, a revealing for the rest of us who don't have the words.'- Emily Young__

This miscellany explores the staggeringly busy and diverse life of Charles Dickens, giving readers the chance to get to knowthe man through his work and its major themes.