Phone-a-Poem: Wind phone installation

‘In Otsuchi, there is a phone booth
where you can dial the dead.
Kaze no denwa, the wind phone
carries your words on the currents
but air is not the same thing as breath.’
- from ‘imbibed aubade’, in Raw Salt by Izzy Roberts-Orr

Pick up the landline handset and dial a number to hear a poem.

A new audio work by local poet Izzy Roberts-Orr extending on her collection, Raw Salt, this work draws inspiration from 'The Phone of the Wind' – an unconnected telephone booth in Ōtsuchi, Japan, where visitors can have a one-way conversation with loved ones they've lost.