Essays / Criticism

Fin-de-Siècle Symbolism and After
The Cambridge History of Australian Poetry (edited by Ann Vickery and Philip Mead), December 2025

Doom-fugues: Their centrifugal/centripetal potential
Overland 258, September 2025

A farewell and a poem from poetry editor Toby Fitch
Overland 256, March 2025

Toby Fitch Reviews Selected Visual Poems by Catherine Vidler
Cordite, 12 June 2024

‘Let’s Dance Redux’, poem and commentary on ekphrasis 
Dancing with Architecture: and Other Ekphrastic Maneuvers, MadHat Press, 2024.

Object Permanence: How does the calligramme take shape?‘ 
Axon: Creative Explorations 13(1), July 2023

Toby Fitch Reviews Running time by Emily Stewart‘, winner of the University of Sydney’s Helen Anne Bell Bequest Award
Cordite, February 2022

Nostalgic Block‘: a review (plus bonus index poem) of Stasis Shuffle by Pam Brown
Meanjin, Spring 2022

What I’m Reading‘ (includes a new long poem ‘Moons’)
Meanjin blog, 19 November 2021

Endlings: An Essay-Poem, or Australian Extinctions Since 1788
Meanjin, Winter 2020

Zooming in on precarity: notes from a meeting between casualised staff and university management‘, with Robert Boncardo, Briony Neilson, Tash Heenan and Claire Parfitt
Overland Literary Journal, 25 June 2020

Our Death: Aspects of the radical in Sean Bonney’s last book of poems
Overland Literary Journal #238, 2020

The Exemplary Poem is A Fluke: Chris Edwards’ mistranslation of Mallarme’s Un Coup de Dés
Axon: Creative Explorations (peer reviewed), vol. 10, no. 2, December 2019

Toby Fitch Reviews Holly Friedlander Liddicoat’s CRAVE
Cordite Poetry Review, 23 October 2019

Aussi/Or: Un Coup de dés and Mistranslation in the Antipodes
Cordite Poetry Review (peer reviewed), 1 May 2019

‘Review of Dave Drayton’s P(oe)Ms
Southerly Literary Journal, 79 no. 1, 2019

‘Chain of Hauntings: a review of Chatelaine by Bonny Cassidy’
Rabbit Poetry Journal #24, 2018

I am to proliferate’: Brink by Jill Jones and Passage by Kate Middleton
Australian Book Review, Jan-Feb 2018

Themparks: Farrell Transposing Ashbery Translating Rimbaud
Journal of Poetics Research (peer reviewed), 2017

Ashbery Made Strange
Overland Literary Journal, 11 September 2017

Relive Your Dreams Awake: Jam Sticky Vision by Luke Beesley
Sydney Review of Books, 24 February 2017

Complicit with the Dark: Drones and Phantoms by Jennifer Maiden
Australian Book Review, April 2015

Plagiarism scandal has revealed an ugly side of Australian poetry
The Guardian, 23 September 2013

wild inaudible: Toby Fitch reviews Mathew Abbott
Cordite Poetry Review #41, 1 January 2013

‘Drunk but Orgasmic: One Under Bacchus by Duncan Bruce Hose’
Rabbit Poetry Journal #4, 2012

Toby Fitch reviews Michael Farrell and John Ashbery
Cordite Poetry Review, 28 November 2011