Toby Davidson

The Grand Reopening, Toby Davidson's third collection, was written during the post-pandemic return to 'normality', a fundamentally abnormal experience now largely consigned to the memory hole Australia reserves for the worst of its history. Through a startling array of poetic styles, Davidson's works refuse this amnesia and instead trace a world encountering itself anew and with new forms of openness,...

Four Oceans, Toby Davidson's second collection, confirms his reputation as one of the most expansive and radical voices in the emerging generation of Australian poets. The scale and scope of the works are deliberately ambitious, often testing the limits of what a single poem can reveal through multiple readings. This collection follows the poet's transitions from Western to Eastern Australia...