{"product_id":"izzy-roberts-orr-raw-salt","title":"Izzy Roberts-Orr, Raw Salt","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWINNER 2024 Anne Elder Award for a first collection of poetry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'\u003cem\u003eRaw Salt\u003c\/em\u003e impresses as a magnificent collection of lyric craft and poetic invention. Roberts-Orr traverses landscapes and griefscapes through poems that display a quiet and genuine confidence in lyric form. Every poem in \u003cem\u003eRaw Salt\u003c\/em\u003e achieves emotional realism and is maximally realised, offering arresting effects in imagery and aphoristic insight, and speaking in a coherent, distinctive and persuasive voice. Thoughtfully curated and finely concentrated, the poems bring about a change in feeling, moving from grief at family loss to an outlook on life that is wary of illusions. \u003cem\u003eRaw Salt\u003c\/em\u003e is an extraordinarily skilled and impressive debut. It is a joy to tread these expansive poems that reveal more depth with each reading.' 2024 Anne Elder Award judges\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIzzy Roberts-Orr's debut collection\u003cem\u003e Raw Salt\u003c\/em\u003e explores contemporary elegy and writing the environment—excavating and engaging death and its aftermath, lineages both ancestral and intellectual. Responding to the sudden death of Roberts-Orr's father a decade ago, Raw Salt is a work of mourning and memory, healing and consilience. The collection is raw with lived experience, the complex history and inheritance we each receive with the death of a parent. The ongoing presence of her father, a horticulturalist, shines through Roberts-Orr's deep attention to the natural world, rendered in poems of extraordinary clarity and precision, offering a kind of healing we might all attend. A complex and deeply human work, this debut collection explores with nuance and generosity the darker undercurrents, the cycles of growth, decay and destruction, sustaining us and the ecosystems from which we have evolved and, as with the departed, are always a part. Izzy Roberts-Orr's \u003cem\u003eRaw Salt\u003c\/em\u003e introduces a remarkable new voice to Australian poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe work of \u003cem\u003eRaw Salt\u003c\/em\u003e is attentive to the flow and forms of mourning. These poems sit with what keeps us from sleep as they score the music of endurance. These are achy, tender, formally expansive poems that set out from a child’s loss of her father to situate human loss and gain amidst the more-than-human world. Raw Salt is remarkable for its range, courage, raillery and vitality. \u003cstrong\u003eFelicity Plunkett\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIzzy Roberts-Orr is a poet, writer, broadcaster and arts worker based on Dja Dja Wurrung Country. Izzy is Creative Producer for Red Room Poetry and a 2020-2022 recipient of the Australia Council Marten Bequest Scholarship for Poetry. \u003cem\u003eRaw Salt\u003c\/em\u003e was the recipient of a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship, and longlisted for the Colorado Prize for Poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIzzy Roberts-Orr, \u003cem\u003eRaw Salt\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2024. 148mm x 210mm. 96pp.\u003cbr\u003eISBN 978-1-925735-59-8\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/files\/CreativeAustraliaLogo_HorizontalBlack_Medium_306d6307-95f0-44ae-b87e-e933241d9921_480x480.png?v=1701428706\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44163399123101,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/files\/Roberts-Orr_RawSalt.png?v=1701428335","url":"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/es\/products\/izzy-roberts-orr-raw-salt","provider":"Vagabond Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}