Gravity Archives by Andrew Motion Louis Aragon xenophobia

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" - Natasha Harding

to midwives on St Kilda

‘the most convincing /rendition of dying /I’ve ever seen’ – no detail of Arksey’s work is without its Hardyesque and robustly bittersweet melancholy

witty and engaging

Gravity Archives by Andrew Motion Louis Aragon xenophobiaPublished 26 March 2026 A new collection of poems from the former Poet Laureate a remarkable contemplation of departure and return. Andrew Motions new collection gives a moving account of the friction and interplay between past and present. In the opening elegies for friends and former versions of the self, and in the long title sequence that completes the book, he explores the ways in which regrets compete with hope, and the appetite for life is