One-hour online mentorship with poet Izzy Roberts-Orr (PLUS signed copy of Raw Salt)

A one-hour online session to workshop up to 3 poems (sent in advance) or to discuss a creative project, grant, or pitch idea. Also includes a personally signed copy of Izzy's poetry collection, Raw Salt.

Please note: this auction includes a physical item that will only be posted within Australia.

Raw Salt is 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 Raw Salt introduces a remarkable new voice to Australian poetry.

'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.' Felicity Plunkett

Izzy Roberts-Orr is a poet, writer, broadcaster and arts worker based on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country in regional Victoria. Izzy is Creative Producer for Red Room Poetry and a 2020-2022 recipient of the Australia Council Marten Bequest Scholarship for Poetry. Raw Salt was the recipient of a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship, and longlisted for the Colorado Prize for Poetry.