Toby Davidson is a West Australian poet and scholar now living on Gai-mariagal land in Sydney’s Northern Beaches. He is the author of two poetry collections, Beast Language (Five Islands Press, 2012) and Four Oceans (Puncher & Wattmann, 2020), and the editor of Francis Webb’s Collected Poems (UWA Publishing, 2011). He teaches Australian literature at Macquarie University and his academic titles include Christian Mysticism and Australian Poetry (Cambria Press, 2013) and Good for the Soul: John Curtin’s life with poetry (UWA Publishing, 2021).