Gravity Archives: Poems: Expanded and Revised Edition

Gravity Archives, Revised and Expanded for North American Readers, is a Remarkable Contemplation of Departure and Return

Andrew Motion's 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 which completes the book, he explores the ways in which regrets compete with hope, and the appetite for life is always a prey to hard facts of mortality. The energy a...