{"product_id":"leaves-fall-off-to-create-drama-by-zarah-butcher-mcgunnigle-9781923106604","title":"Leaves Fall Off to Create Drama","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\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\n\n\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\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eNostalgia Has Ruined My Life\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\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, \u003ci\u003eSydney Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47486434509036,"sku":"9781923106604","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/e70835016df259f110ffc52be30fd100.jpg?v=1775779494","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/leaves-fall-off-to-create-drama-by-zarah-butcher-mcgunnigle-9781923106604","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}