The Grand Reopening

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Toby Davidson

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Puncher and Wattmann
01 June 2025

Poetry; Poetry by individual poets

The Grand Reopening, Toby Davidson's third collection, was written during the post-pandemic return to 'normality', a fundamentally abnormal experience now largely consigned to the memory hole Australia reserves for the worst of its history. Through a startling array of poetic styles, Davidson's works refuse this amnesia and instead trace a world encountering itself anew and with new forms of openness, from Sydney bars to Dublin's midnight streets and the active volcanic rim of Santorini where, as ever, nature is teacher.

'Toby Davidson is a master of the run-on line, and his end words often create a form of spell-making that works like a lit fuse. These poems move from the accessible, fine-boned lyric to complex narratives that invite close scrutiny and make invitations, not detour signs, towards understanding. The Grand Reopening is a compelling third collection.'

Anthony Lawrence

'Whether through observing a pod of passing whales, Dublin's seagulls or a drowning cicada

or in musings on love or dental treatment

Davidson's unfailingly precise diction and compression, and disciplined, deeply-considered structural decisions, bring us a new collection which crackles with intense, unpredictable energy. And the final sequence is a knockout.'

Marcella Polain

'The Grand Reopening is a searing book of love and mortality. In its taut, short lines, the long sequence ""His Blood Whisper Scolds the Deathless Intelligence"" enters the mind and heart and simply will not leave.'

Kevin Hart

By: Toby Davidson
Imprint: Puncher and Wattmann
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm, Spine: 7mm
Weight: 180g
ISBN: 9781923099616
ISBN 10: 1923099612
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 01 June 2025
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Toby Davidson is a poet and Australian poetry scholar now living on Darkinjung Country on the NSW Central Coast. His prior collections are Four Oceans (Puncher and Wattman, 2020), Beast Language (Five Islands Press, 2012) and, as editor, Francis Webb's Collected Poems (UWA Publishing, 2011). His latest non-fiction book is Good for the Soul: John Curtin's Life with Poetry (UWA Publishing, 2021).

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The Grand Reopening

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