{"product_id":"9781923106604","title":"Leaves Fall Off to Create Drama","description":"Author: Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781923106604\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Giramondo Publishing\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Apr 2026\u003cbr\u003ePages: 60\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat are the appropriate emotions. Even with a map, it was difficult to determine. An ache which means let go. If she didn't have the thought, she wouldn't have the feeling.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZarah Butcher-McGunnigle's \u003ci\u003eLeaves Fall Off to Create Drama\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of prose poems that invites the reader to consider the relationships between internalised beliefs and the development of illness, drawing on psychology texts and the language of self-help, and the exploration of character traits and dramatic tropes. \u003ci\u003eWheels fall off to create drama.\u003c\/i\u003e Through shifting frames of reference, wordplay, aphorism, and inversions, the poems reform, unfold and rebound to create a collage of melancholy and comic transformations. \u003ci\u003eOne thing leads to a mother.\u003c\/i\u003e Butcher-McGunnigle's poems explore the relationship between unexamined subconscious thinking and physical and mental health, resisting singular, fixed meanings and inviting the reader to reflect on their own experiences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNostalgia Has Ruined My Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Full of moments that, to me, are perfect...consummately whole, exactly right, every element in glowering harmony, as densely fixed as a neutron star.'  Ursula Robinson-Shaw,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSydney Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46867069173918,"sku":"ADS-9781923106604","price":24.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781923106604.jpg?v=1779429239","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781923106604","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}