{"product_id":"toby-fitch-br-the-bloomin-notions-of-other-beau","title":"Toby Fitch, The Bloomin’ Notions of Other \u0026 Beau","description":"\u003cp\u003eNineteenth-century French poet Arthur Rimbaud told his friends in Africa that he had “seen Australia”. But what did he mean by “seen”? Visited? Viewed on the horizon? Imagined? \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Bloomin’ Notions of Other \u0026amp; Beau\u003c\/em\u003e is a book of antipodes—inversions—of the prose poems collected in Rimbaud’s \u003cem\u003eLes Illuminations\u003c\/em\u003e, which Toby Fitch turns upside down, hijacking and re-versing their content. Here you will find collages, redactions, homophonic and metonymic mistranslations, pattern poems, concrete poems and other systematic derangements, some curiously child-like, others warped by the virtual world. Rimbaud’s prose proves fertile ground in which to grow \u003cem\u003eBloomin’ Notions\u003c\/em\u003e—poems that see the land Down Under in an other light. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eThe Bloomin’ Notions of Other \u0026amp; Beau\u003c\/em\u003e, Toby Fitch releases hordes of godless hierodules to hack, frack and adirondack multiversal pathways through the parallel universes of Australian poetry. This is the archive as hi-rise, Rimbaud via Ashbery fed through the Shredder of Babel, where the jackhammered lupids of a Concrete aesthetic ruse, saturate, fold and bend in a ‘double sex heartbeat ribcage jangle’. In this uniquely co-dependent autopoiesis, Fitch has produced an anonymous autobiography that is at once prolifically particular and breathtakingly universal.\"\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e—Fiona Hile\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n“Fitch explores the nether regions of late hominid consumer culture with ready humour, great savvy and Rimbauldian raunch and verve.”\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e—Chris Edwards\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/puncherandwattmann.com\/books\/book\/rawshock\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/files\/Toby_Fitch_-_Tim_Grey-13_medium.jpg?10993439397374589675\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003eToby Fitch is the author of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/puncherandwattmann.com\/books\/book\/rawshock\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eRawshock\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (Puncher \u0026amp; Wattmann 2012), which was a co-winner of the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry, and \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/the-db-series\/products\/toby-fitch-jerilderies\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eJerilderies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (Vagabond Press 2014), plus two chapbooks, \u003cem\u003eQuarrels\u003c\/em\u003e (Stale Objects dePress 2013) and \u003cem\u003eEveryday Static \u003c\/em\u003e(Vagabond Rare Objects 2010). Based in Sydney, he works as a bookseller, a creative writing teacher, as poetry editor for \u003ci\u003eOverland\u003c\/i\u003e, and runs the monthly poetry night at Sappho Books \u003cspan size=\"3\" id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454546261587_45333\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003eCaf\u003cspan id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454546261587_45253\" class=\"\"\u003eé\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e and Wine Bar. He recently submitted a doctoral thesis at the University of Sydney on alternative play in contemporary Australian poetry. \u003ci id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1454546261587_45017\"\u003eBloomin' Notions \u003c\/i\u003eis his third book of poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eToby Fitch, \u003cem\u003eThe Bloomin’ Notions of Other \u0026amp; Beau\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2016. 80pp. ISBN 978 1 922181 46 6\u003cbr\u003eRelease date: April 2016.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ciframe style=\"width:550px;height:350px\" src=\"https:\/\/online.anyflip.com\/wuapt\/xipt\/index.html\" seamless=\"seamless\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":14399140932,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/Fitch_BloominNotions_Cover_Front.jpg?v=1454558489","url":"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/ja\/products\/toby-fitch-br-the-bloomin-notions-of-other-beau","provider":"Vagabond Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}