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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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@Toby_Fitch
Toby Fitch
3 years
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):
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puncherandwattmann.com
Object Permanence is a book published by Puncher & Wattmann. Click here to purchase Object Permanence online today.
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@press_erratum
Erratum
2 months
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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Erratum
2 months
AUSSI/OR by @Toby_Fitch | now available to buy direct from Lulu https://t.co/upBH7mQz7g
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Erratum
3 months
AUSSI/OR by Toby Fitch | *out now* @Toby_Fitch
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@Toby_Fitch
Toby Fitch
3 months
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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Toby Fitch
4 months
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sedecordle.com
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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@Toby_Fitch
Toby Fitch
5 months
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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Toby Fitch
6 months
My poem, 'Waves Poem', in @Meanjin 84.2, Winter:
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Toby Fitch
7 months
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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Toby Fitch
7 months
My poem 'Delirious on Kosciusko', in Australian Poetry Journal 14.1: Walking, edited by Jake Goetz:
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@OverlandJournal
Overland Journal
7 months
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!
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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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Toby Fitch
5 years
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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Toby Fitch
8 months
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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Toby Fitch
8 months
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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@TriciaDearborn
Tricia Dearborn
9 months
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
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Omar Sakr
9 months
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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Toby Fitch
9 months
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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@OverlandJournal
Overland Journal
9 months
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.
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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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@Toby_Fitch
Toby Fitch
9 months
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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