The Drop Off

By: David Stavanger

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Paperback | 1 April 2025

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Entering 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.

Exploring the liminal space of shared custody and societal tropes of the 'broken family', this collection is the follow-up to Stavanger's award-winning Case Notes. 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.

About the Author

David Stavanger is poet, performer, cultural producer, editor and former psychologist living on Dharawal land. His first full-length poetry collection, The Special (UQP, 2014), was awarded several prizes. David is the co-editor of Solid Air- Collected Australian & New Zealand Spoken Word (UQP, 2019) and Admissions- Voices Within Mental Health (Upswell, 2022.) His latest collection, Case Notes (UWAP, 2020), won the 2021 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Poetry.

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Stavanger's lyric is both elastic and electric - there's no limit to where his lines extend, and the snap back is charged with enough volts to restart any heart. Omar Sakr

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, The Drop Off lands in the reader's body with devastating and revelatory effect. Andy Jackson

The Drop Off 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. Grace Yee

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