Toby Fitch

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.

2 months ago | 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.

Jun 11, 2024 | cordite.org.au | Toby Fitch

Selected Visual Poems by Catherine VidlerStale Objects dePress, 2023In the late Catherine Vidler’s first full-length collection of poetry Furious Triangle (2011), a brilliant book of poems using regular old words, the spores to Vidler’s entirely wordless visual poems can be found.