Ep53_Creating Drama w/ Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle

This week the g**ners chat with poet and flaneuse Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle, about the release of her two new-old books, Autobiography of a Marguerite and Leaves Fall Off to Create Drama. They talk about the legacy of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry; the changes in verse in the last couple of decades; Autofiction and fragmentary writing; cracking open old works and the vicissitudes of life on the scene.

Before that, Putrid Pat and Tumescent Tim discuss JJJ and Raw Comedy aesthetics; revivalism in noughties music; the death of music press; Australian political memoirs; CTE-lit; magic realism v fabulism; the nature of the middlebrow; playfulness in comedy; Masculinity: a gay conspiracy; the BRS Read-a-thon.

Production by “Dictator” Dan Dare.

Song: No Strain by The Southend Rainbows.

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