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Toby Fitch

Toby Fitch (he/they) is a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Sydney and former poetry editor of Overland. Author of eight books of poetry, including Where Only the Sky had Hung Before (2019), Sydney Spleen (2021) and Object Permanence: Calligrammes (2022), he has a forthcoming book, Or: An Autobiography, with Upswell Publishing and is currently writing a book called Endlings. He lives on unceded Gadigal land with his partner, their three children and a staffy.

The 15 Great Dog Pisses of Paris

(after Brett Whiteley)     1. Off in the distance, a twig, the syphilitic finger of Baudelaire pointing towards any number of vague symbols — his spleen? the soul? an invitation to Pigalle? It’s a mystery. 2. Trailing down in …

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Toby Fitch Reviews Michael Farrell and John Ashbery

In her review of John Ashbery’s new translation of Illuminations in The New York Times, Lydia Davis reminded us that: “When Rimbaud’s mother asked of A Season in Hell, ‘What does it mean?’ — a question still asked of Rimbaud’s poetry, and of Ashbery’s, too — Rimbaud would say only, ‘It means what it says, literally and in every sense.'”

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