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    The Special
    The Special
    The Special
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    The Special

    By David Stavanger

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    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-postmodern 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 flavor.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Queensland Press
    Release dateAug 1, 2014
    ISBN9780702252853
    The Special
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    David Stavanger

    David Stavanger is a poet, cultural producer, editor and former psychologist living on unceded Dharawal land. His first full-length poetry collection The Special (UQP, 2014) was awarded the Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize and the Wesley Michel Wright Poetry Prize. David is the co-editor of SOLID AIR: Collected Australian & New Zealand Spoken Word (UQP, 2019) and his latest collection Case Notes (UWAP, 2020) won the 2021 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Poetry.

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