{"product_id":"9780645984088","title":"The Drop Off","description":"Author: Stavanger, David\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780645984088\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Black Inc\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Apr 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 116\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEntering the liminal space of shared custody and societal tropes of the 'broken family', with a blend of poetry, with other forms. This new volume unravels the day-to-day reality of co-parenting, exploring the ways we stay afloat.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExploring the liminal space of shared custody and societal tropes of the 'broken family', this collection is the follow-up to Stavanger's award-winning\u003ci\u003e Case Notes\u003c\/i\u003e. A blend of poetry, found text, short-form prose, reportage, and longer poetic non-fiction, this work unravels the day-to-day reality of co-parenting amid growing environmental and class concerns, and the ways we stay afloat.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'David Stavanger writes poems of excruciating beauty, associative insight and acute humanity like no-one else I know. From the complexities of shared parenting to the housing crisis, from the corporatisation of everyday life to the alienations of the medical system, \u003ci\u003eThe Drop Off\u003c\/i\u003e lands in the reader's body with devastating and revelatory effect.' -\u003cb\u003eAndy Jackson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003ci\u003eThe Drop Off\u003c\/i\u003e raises crucial questions about how and why we are blindly complicit in diminishing our lives in ways that threaten to undermine our capacity to value the very qualities that characterise us as human. Amid the heartbreak and melancholy, the unsettled and unsettling, there is much humour, too. These poems are extraordinary animals. Stavanger has an astute and unflinching eye - and a talent for matter-of-factly corralling mundane everyday details to absurd effect.' -\u003cb\u003eGrace Yee\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46726947045534,"sku":"UBD-9780645984088","price":24.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780645984088.jpg?v=1776490811","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780645984088","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}