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Toby Fitch

Poetry Editor at Overland

poet | books include ‘Sydney Spleen’ and ‘Object Permanence: Calligrammes’ | lecturer in creative writing @Sydney_Uni | former poetry editor @overlandjournal

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  • 1 week ago | meanjin.com.au | Toby Fitch

    Subscriptions start at just $5 a month — which goes directly towards our writers’ fees.

  • 1 month ago | cordite.org.au | Toby Fitch

    Toby Fitch (he/they) is poetry editor of Overland and a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Sydney. He is the author of eight books of poetry, including Where Only the Sky had Hung Before (2019), Sydney Spleen (2021), and, most recently, a newly expanded and full-colour edition of Object Permanence: Calligrammes (2023).

  • 2 months ago | overland.org.au | Toby Fitch |Gary Catalano |Louisa Mignone |Juliette McIntyre

    Speech given on Friday 13 December 2024 at Testing Grounds, MelbourneIt’s rare that I speak at Overland events, because I prefer to do my work as poetry editor in the shadows. Not like one of the faceless men of the Labor party, no — the work of selecting poetry isn’t particularly clandestine or manipulative. Nor does it need fanfare — it’s simple work, of carving down a cornucopia of submissions into a small set menu for each issue.

  • Mar 10, 2025 | islandmag.com | Toby Fitch

    Locked in your Lutruwita lake Surrounded by sandy white beach In search of invertebrates Your galactic fins flit through tannins Surrounded by sandy white beach Green-brown skin like water Your galactic fins flit through tannins Around rocks, up tributaries Green-brown skin as water Heavily shaded, highly convoluted In this rocky tribute You plummet to the depths Heavily shaded, highly convoluted Among debris and vegetation Who wouldn’t plummet to such depths Head-long, strongly depressed...

  • Oct 17, 2024 | foreignaffairs.co.nz | Toby Fitch

    Source: MicrosoftHeadline: Designing against the deaf tax: How we can flip the script on tokenismInclusive Design – UX/UIHow we can flip the script on tokenismByToby FitchSep 24, 2024   –   The estimated reading time is 11 min. “Your baby has failed” isn’t a phrase any parent wants to hear. Yet for parents born with deaf children, babies are labeled failures before even leaving the hospital because they don’t pass mandated hearing tests.

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Toby Fitch
Toby Fitch @Toby_Fitch
9 Jun 25

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) https://t.co/xVJDM0g6l6

Toby Fitch
Toby Fitch @Toby_Fitch
8 Jun 25

My poem 'Delirious on Kosciusko', in Australian Poetry Journal 14.1: Walking, edited by Jake Goetz: https://t.co/DdsUP1MkGU

Toby Fitch
Toby Fitch @Toby_Fitch
26 May 25

RT @OverlandJournal: An open letter from First Nations storytellers to the Queensland State Library and the Queensland Education and Arts M…