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Title: Sydney Spleen: New poems
Author: FITCH TOBY
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/07/2021
Imprint: GIRAMONDO PUBLISHING COMP
Price: $25.00
Publishing status: Active
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 so as 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 obsolete. The backdrop of this collection of poems is sparkling Sydney and its screens, through which the poet mainlines global angst. Fitch s spleen poems , with their radical use of form and tone, are as much an aesthetic experience as a literary one translation becomes homage becomes satire becomes song; essays become lyrics become rants become dreams. What is a poem when no one believes in the future now anyway ? Nor is the collection lacking in humour. Sydney Spleen mocks everything in its crystal glass, yet still finds real moments of connection to celebrate.
'Fitch s poems are not interested in slowly unfolding a metaphor or arriving at a singular meaning. Instead, they ask you to cling on for your life.' Sarah Holland-Batt
ISBN: 9781925818758
Weight: 150gr
Dimension: 210mm X 148mm
Edition: 01