This Attic of Fire

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Recent decades have seen ceaseless catastrophes created by governments' failure to engage with the environmental-political reality of climate change.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In her third poetry collection journalist and film critic Roberta Lowing author of the Asher Award-winning Iraq war sequence </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Ruin</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and the Prime Minister's Award and Commonwealth Book Prize-nominated </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Notorious</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> responds to the domino effect of human-made environmental damage.</span></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This Attic of Fire</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a political work that strives to demonstrate how relevant - and revelatory - poetry can be to a modern society.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This is poetry as an act of protest and a place of sanctuary.</span></p>