Against Gravity Will Stone The narrator endures the company

The narrator endures the company of both pathetic and incorrigible characters while struggling to reconcile her idealization of The Modern Marriage with the painful reality of life with a philandering husband

of grief and the long aftermath

Told through a woman’s journals written while interned in a French psychiatric ward after the death of her son

an unscrupulous astrologer

Against Gravity Will Stone The narrator endures the companyAgainst Gravity: the title alludes to our struggle with mortality as we age and, by contrast, the pleasures of play, imagination, creativity. Robert Saxtons 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 Neros theatre to trouser suits for