The Grand Reopening

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 reserved for the worst of Australian history. Davidson’s works refuse this forgetting and instead portray a changed world re-encountering itself, from Sydney bars to Dublin’s streets to the ancient volcano beneath Santorini where, as ever, nature is teacher.