{"product_id":"case-notes-by-david-stavanger-9781760801199","title":"Case Notes","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e Winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2021: Prize for Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe highly anticipated follow-up to the award-winning collection \u003cem\u003eThe Special\u003c\/em\u003e, this electric new body of work by poet David Stavanger is a mix tape of free verse, lyric poetry, found text, and flash fiction documenting lived mental health experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUtilising his renowned observational humour and playing with the absurdist nature of institutional language, Stavanger interrogates the unreliable narration of diagnosis: in private, in public, and in surrealist spaces where it becomes increasingly unclear who is under the microscope.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn short character studies, informal experiments, and longer sequenced poems, this collection unpacks toxic masculinity and fatherhood, online and domestic tensions, the truth of confessional poetry, myths of 'madness' inherited by blood, and the canine as both avatar and familiar of the black dog.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a poetic memoir for those who don't believe the hype.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50519508648172,"sku":"9781760801199","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781760801199-case-notes-1.jpg?v=1790160169","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/case-notes-by-david-stavanger-9781760801199","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}