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Against Gravity by Robert Saxton Spring2026 Don PatersonPublished 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