Toby Fitch

Toby Fitch is poetry editor for Overland. His books of poetry include Rawshock, which won the Grace Leven Prize 2012, Jerilderies and, most recently, The Bloomin’ Notions of Other & Beau (Vagabond 2016). He lives in Newtown.

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Review: Toby Fitchon Luke Beesley

Jam Sticky Vision by Luke Beesley Giramondo Publishing
96pp
$25 AU
Published June, 2015
ISBN 9781922146847

Relive Your Dreams Awake: Jam Sticky Vision by Luke Beesley

Names, images and ideas are consumed by one another, literally and figuratively.

Feb. 2017 • Australian literature • Poetry

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Juncture Review: Michael Farrellon Toby Fitch

Where Only the Sky had Hung Before by Toby Fitch Vagabond Press
96pp
Published 2019
ISBN 9781925735321

Rebellious Tropes

Reading and writing are bodies within bodies and rooms within each other. Fitch’s poetry is exemplary in terms of showing us the possibilities – and impossibilities (like reading in a dark room, like being in spaces we aren’t) – of the reading/writing (or pretext/text) relation. But there is no separate room or compartment where we house our reading: writing brings back all kinds of memories of mental and affective experience, including those involving digital forms, and material art.