Toby Fitch
Toby Fitch is poetry editor of Overland, a sessional academic in creative writing at the University of Sydney, and organiser of AVANT GAGA and the poetry night at Sappho Books in Glebe. His most recent book of poems is Where Only the Sky had Hung Before and his next, Sydney Spleen, is forthcoming with Giramondo in 2021. He lives on unceded Gadigal land.
The poetic epigraphs that introduce all three sections in Brink, Jill Jones’s tenth full-length poetry collection, are collaged fragments from the poems proper. Moodily, they skirt the edges of what’s to come: ‘I am to proliferate.’ The poems then, in all their multiplicity, evoke and explore being on the brink – of knowing, feeling, sensing, and making sense:
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'In Fancy' was first published in The Bloomin' Notions of Other & Beau by Toby Fitch (Vagabond Press, April 2016)
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daze of body & soul come to a / won’t come to an end on this / the last night of dearth browsing eBay & Etsy / the Cloud i erode drops in & butts out like a tideu appear in my inboxed head eating snow ... (read more)
her temper tanty's sus but your mites say sassy's entering the pleather dome lookin'poised w/ noose & savvy much obliged toglorify her cunning firm & toutits nous for oblivion
where the pert velvet diva never lets you restyour glass head in which infinitepools rotating w/ lustvoice toots from the comments fielddissing your angel
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u salivate over the lavish merch & navigate the root the riot marches down pour lemonade into yr filters watch it fizz w/ the aura of philosophy confit the poor toys & velour&n ... (read more)
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Jennifer Maiden’s eighteenth book of poetry bears yet another title punning on war (remember Tactics, The Problem of Evil, The Occupying Forces, The Border Loss, Acoustic Shadow, Friendly Fire). Her umbrella themes – politics, power, evil, the public and private selves, war, and the role of art – are back. The title is a beautiful droning of her past work – ‘But the problem of evil drums ... (read more)
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