Also writes as: Ghostboy
Gender:
Male
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BiographyHistory
Most Referenced Works
Personal Awards
- 2023 recipient Varuna Fellowships — Varuna Poetry Fellowship for his poetry collection ‘The Drop Off’.
- 2020 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships — Individuals and groups ($28,000)
- 2019 shortlisted Red Room Poetry Fellowship
Awards for Works
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Case Notes
Nedlands
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UWA Publishing
,
2020
18541590
2020
selected work
poetry
'Your name is not yours / once it’s in their mouth
'The highly anticipated follow up to the award-winning collection The Special, this electric new body of work by David Stavanger is a mix tape of free verse, lyric poetry, found text, spoken word and flash fiction documenting the lived/living mental health experience and the well beyond.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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The Special
St Lucia
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University of Queensland Press
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2014
7673880
2014
selected work
poetry
'Both fun and playful, Stavanger’s poems display wit and beguiling originality. They shift from the oddball to the vulnerable and from the zany to the deeply meditative.
Stavanger’s collection embodies a spirit of the post-post-modern in both intellect and spark, while playing off cool disjunctions against electrifying erudition. There is a strong trace of the performative and dramatic in these poems – Stavanger’s flair for performance poetry gives this award-winning collection a distinct and likeable flavour.' (Publication summary)
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