Time Lived, Without Its Flow

Time Lived, Without Its Flow

<p><b>'I work to earth my heart.'</b></p><p><i>Time Lived, Without Its Flow</i> is an astonishing, unflinching essay on the nature of grief from critically acclaimed poet Denise Riley. From the horrific experience of maternal grief Riley wrote her lauded collection <i>Say Something Back</i>, a modern classic of British poetry. This essay is a companion piece to that work, looking at the way time stops when we lose someone suddenly from our lives. A book of two discrete halves, the first half is formed of diary-like entries written by Riley after the news of her son’s death, the entries building to paint a live portrait of loss. The second half is a ruminative post script written some years later with Riley looking back at the experience philosophically and attempting to map through it a literature of consolation. Written in precise and exacting prose, with remarkable insight and grace this book will form kind counsel to all those living on in the wake of grief. A modern-day counterpart to C. S. Lewis’s<i> A Grief Observed</i>.</p><p>Published widely for the first time, this revised edition features a brand new introduction by Max Porter, author of <i>Grief is A Thing With Feathers.</i></p><p><b>'Her writing is perfectly weighted, justifies its existence' - <i>Guardian</i></b></p>