Against Gravity by Robert Saxton Spring2026 the half-forgotten scholar behind the

the half-forgotten scholar behind the decipherment of the ancient writing system called Linear B

for fans of Lana Del Rey and Atticus

song and formal necessity

A Change in the Air follows Jane Clarke's widely praised previous collections The River (2015) and When the Tree Falls (2019)

Against Gravity by Robert Saxton Spring2026 the half-forgotten scholar behind thePublished 21 May 2026 Against Gravity: the title alludes to our struggle with mortality as we age and, by contrast, the pleasures of play, imagination, creativity. Robert Saxton's latest poetry book is dedicated to a friend whose heart gave out on a Scottish mountain. But in counterpoint to the elegaic, it offers humour too, often with dark overtones. The subject matter is wide ranging " from the late Queen to the pitfalls of indexing, from Nero's