Whether presented as fiction or the voices of shared histories, his characters are grounded within the seasons and Country. Pascoe’s characters are richly drawn from this salted earth and exposed to the light and the elements. The prevalence of salt speaks to the power and closeness of sea Country and our dwindling salty river systems, increasingly threatened by human intervention. The title speaks to memories and ghosts triggered by the smell of salt its ability to clean, to render flesh and skin from bone, to preserve evidence, to signal cumulative impacts on Country. Readers of Dark Emu (2014) and Convincing Ground (2007) will be familiar with the style and subject matter but will discover newly released or reworked gems. Structured thematically across six themes – Country, Lament, Seawolves, Embrasure, Tracks, and Culture Lines – Salt moves between the past and the present with Pascoe’s distinctively poetic voice. Bruce Pascoe’s Salt is a wonderfully eclectic collection of new works and earlier short fiction, literary non-fiction, and essays written over twenty years.
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