Toby Fitch

Or, an Autobiography explores in poetry the fluidities of self, body, and imagination. Or, an Autobiography delves into these themes with its central book-length poem, 'The Or Tree', an alternative version of the fictional poem 'The Oak Tree', originally written by Virginia Woolf's character Orlando (a fictional rendering of Vita Sackville-West). In Woolf's narrative, 'The Oak Tree' takes Orlando over...

Sydney Spleen takes Charles Baudelaire's concept of spleen as melancholy with no apparent cause, characterised by a disgust with everything and combines it with a contemporary sense of irony to articulate the causes of our doom and gloom: corporate rapacity, climate change, disaster capitalism, the plague, neo-colonialism, fake news, fascism, and how to raise kids in a world fast becoming...