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Poem

An Octopus Tests My Left Big Toe

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October 2024, no. 469
Poem

An Octopus Tests My Left Big Toe

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October 2024, no. 469
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Toby Davidson

Toby Davidson is a poet and Australian poetry scholar now living on Darkinjung Country on the New South Wales Central Coast. His latest books are Four Oceans (Puncher and Wattman, 2020) and Good for the Soul: John Curtin’s life with poetry (UWA Publishing, 2021). His third collection, The Grand Reopening, is forthcoming from Puncher & Wattmann.

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  • I love this poem - it expands upon Les Murray's miniature masterpiece 'A Denizen'
    (first published in ABR) to portray these amazing creatures in luminous detail.
    The internal (full and half) rhymes give these lines gorgeous, subtle music:
    'akimbo in a world of wind' and 'nine minds to run rings around'
    So much to admire here.
    Posted by Anthony Lawrence
    01 October 2024

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