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The Drop Off by David Stavanger

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June 2025, no. 476
Will Hunt reviews ‘The Drop Off’ by David Stavanger

David Stavanger’s third collection of poetry, The Drop Off, disintegrates binaries and social expectations with post-structuralist fervour, occupying and exploring the liminal space of broken families, neo-liberal cultures, mental health and, of course, language. Stavanger’s poetry is both pithy and undercutting, anathematic and loving, political and personal – and often, as is the case with such duplicitous poetry, these themes express themselves simultaneously, almost co-dependently.

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QLD | Two poems by David Stavanger

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States of Poetry Podcast - Series Two

David Stavanger reads his poems ‘I lied' and 'New Age' for the second series of ABR's Queensland States of Poetry anthology.