{"product_id":"or-an-autobiography","title":"Or: An Autobiography","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Book:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eOr: An Autobiography\u003c\/em\u003e explores fluidities of self, body, and imagination. Its central long poem, ‘The Or Tree’, is a speculative version of the fictitious poem ‘The Oak Tree’, by Virginia Woolf’s Orlando. ‘The Oak Tree’ takes Orlando over 300 years to write, in which time they live through multiple eras, burn their poetic oeuvre, have various affairs with poets, critics, and a queen, and change gender from man to woman.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘The Or Tree’ is an assemblage poem, resurrected chronologically from fragments of the six chapters of a burnt copy of \u003cem\u003eOrlando: A Biography\u003c\/em\u003e. It is an homage to androgyny and the non-binary, or rather, an expression of the fluidity we are all capable of. ‘Or’ is an alter ego and character in the poem (pronouns they\/them), as well as a conjunction, and a ghost. ‘The Or Tree’ is complemented by an ‘understorey’, a poetic essay that underscores and intertwines with the poem across each chapter in a radical play on the autobiographical and citational.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBorn in London and raised on unceded Gadigal land, \u003cstrong\u003eToby Fitch\u003c\/strong\u003e (he\/they) is a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Sydney, former poetry editor of \u003cem\u003eOverland\u003c\/em\u003e, and the author of nine books of poetry, including \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/giramondopublishing.com\/books\/sydney-spleen\/\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSydney Spleen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (2021) and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/puncherandwattmann.com\/product\/object-permanence\/\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eObject Permanence: Calligrammes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (2022). Toby’s poetry has won the Grace Leven Prize, the Charles Rischbieth Jury Prize and the Leonie Kramer Award, and his work as an editor includes the anthologies \u003cem\u003eBest of Australian Poems 2021 \u003c\/em\u003e(with Ellen van Neerven) and \u003cem\u003eGroundswell\u003c\/em\u003e. Toby lives in Sydney’s inner west with his partner and their three children.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN:978-1-7642397-0-7\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Upswell Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42238584913975,"sku":null,"price":27.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0626\/7771\/2951\/files\/UP_OrAnAutobiography_cover.jpg?v=1782289817","url":"https:\/\/upswell-publishing.myshopify.com\/products\/or-an-autobiography","provider":"Upswell Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}