Toby Fitch
@Toby_Fitch
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poet | books include ‘Sydney Spleen’ and ‘Object Permanence: Calligrammes’ | lecturer in creative writing @Sydney_Uni | former poetry editor @overlandjournal
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Joined January 2013
In the spirit of Magritte's 'This Is Not a Pipe', this is NOT my new book of poems, Object Permanence: Calligrammes, featuring my pattern poems collected together from 7 previous books of poetry, in technicolour (Puncher & Wattmann / Thorny Devil Press):
puncherandwattmann.com
Object Permanence is a book published by Puncher & Wattmann. Click here to purchase Object Permanence online today.
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ERRATUM titles / last 12 months on their way to the Prague Microfest @PMF [@Questionstruck @Toby_Fitch @german_sierra @AJMoore_70 &c &c]
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I have a small-ish academic monograph (or minigraph), called Aussi/Or: Un Coup de dés Down Under, getting published today by @press_erratum in the UK. You can read a bit about it, and/or buy a hard copy, and/or download an open source PDF, here: https://t.co/hHYofZ9h4T
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#sedecordle
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It's like wordle, but you solve 16 wordles at once! You get 21 guesses to solve all the puzzles. A unique sedecordle every day and unlimited free puzzles!
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New poem of mine, 'Pictures of the End', published by the journal Coastlines (edited by Aidan Coleman). It's a largely found poem, or assemblage, in three sonnets. Lots of other poems and besides in the latest issue: https://t.co/GMGnVcxZ0d
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The Poetry Night at Sappho for June is tonight, with Cornflake Sunset (Luke Beesley), Suneeta Peres da Costa, Mark Roberts, and Moya Costello! https://t.co/vdRbabe2cv (image: Hella Guth, 'Isle vagabonde', 1957)
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My poem 'Delirious on Kosciusko', in Australian Poetry Journal 14.1: Walking, edited by Jake Goetz:
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An open letter from First Nations storytellers to the Queensland State Library and the Queensland Education and Arts Minister, in solidarity with our Martu sibling, Ren Wyld, and with our siblings at black&write!
overland.org.au
To the State Library of Queensland and the Queensland Education and Arts Minister, We write as a community of First Nations authors, publishers, literary scholars, arts workers and Storytellers. We...
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I've been running a new project @OverlandJournal, publishing a poem online every 3rd Friday—'The Friday Poem', if you will. Here's a thread of all the poems so far:
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73. ‘Bluey Blood’ by Dorothy Hewett:
overland.org.au
Alice cut her wrists / & joined the Party / read The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists / & Ten Days that Shook the World
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The Poetry Night at Sappho Books Cafe & Wine Bar for May is tonight, with guest poets Louis Armand, David Stavanger, Nathan Shepherdson, Hani Abdile and Robin M Eames: https://t.co/Ay5SOQyXId (image: Alun Leach-Jones, Pueblo, 1973).
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My poem, 'A Bunch of Extinct Australian Flowers', published in Cordite Poetry Review 116: Remember, edited by Anne-Marie Te Whiu and Micaela Sahhar: https://t.co/DwSwrz2kMZ
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Giramondo Publishing currently has a 40% off sale, including on my book Sydney Spleen. Lots of great books!
giramondopublishing.com
Sydney Spleen takes Charles Baudelaire’s concept of spleen as melancholy with no apparent cause and combines it with a contemporary sense of irony so as to articulate the causes of our doom and gloom.
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Australia is required by international law to do everything in its power to prevent genocide, even when it thinks its specific actions won't stop it. In trading with Israel, Australia is not only flouting international law, but literally supporting a genocide @AlboMP @SenatorWong
There are so many materials ways we could pressure Israel to stop its genocide, as we required to by law, and the Albanese government has refused to do so every step of the way.
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The Poetry Night at Sappho for April, AVANT GAGA #72, with guest poets Eileen Chong, Šime Knežević, Huang Fan, and Josh Stenberg, is tonight! https://t.co/0gJINI1uo5 (Image: Ma Shuqing, 'Untitled', oil on canvas)
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We're beginning to unlock materials from issue #256 of Overland this week, and the place of honour firmly belongs to the beautiful speech (plus new poem!) that outgoing poetry editor @Toby_Fitch delivered at our 70th anniversary last year.
overland.org.au
Overland is committed to the political project that is poetry, a project that must go beyond diversity quotas, empty acknowledgments, and pat didacticism. And it must decry the kind of depoliticised...
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@usefulstars @jasongray85 @LouisArmxnd @htaylorjohnson @garethamorgan @dzenanabanana @_davedrayton 72. ‘Water Music’ by Gary Catalano:
overland.org.au
Even now / its black waters / are tanked ’nd / safely intact. Pour / seeds or syllables / back down that throat / and all you’ll hear / are scattered ping-pings / on an iron roof.
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I'll be reading a couple of new poems tomorrow night from 6:30 at Better Read Than Dead in Newtown as part of David Stavanger's The Drop Off book launch. Come along to also hear poems from Omar Sakr, Jennifer Wong and David! Book here: https://t.co/DTSMCV66gI
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