{"product_id":"sydney-spleen-by-toby-fitch","title":"'Sydney Spleen' by Toby Fitch","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"188\" data-end=\"672\"\u003eA splenetic, formally restless collection of new poems from Australian poet Toby Fitch.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"188\" data-end=\"672\"\u003eIt takes Baudelaire’s melancholy disgust and drags it through contemporary Sydney: plague walks, climate collapse, corporate rot, parenthood, screens, dogs, clouds, bad weather, worse politics. The poems move between lyric, satire, dream, translation, visual experiment, rant and urban psychogeography, building a portrait of a city glittering while quietly going septic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"674\" data-end=\"970\"\u003eFitch writes with a sharp, elastic intelligence, turning public doom into strange private music. This is poetry for readers who like their Australian writing wired, civic, ecological, funny, and mildly poisoned by the knowledge that the future has been delayed due to administrative incompetence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"674\" data-end=\"970\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition paperback, Giramondo, 2021. Very good used condition, with light shelf wear only. Clean pages and firm binding.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44658117247059,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Yourparagraphtext-2026-05-26T151906.380.png?v=1779772785","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/sydney-spleen-by-toby-fitch","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}