Dr David Devanny
Course Leader, BA(Hons) Creative Writing
Overview
David is a lecturer and PhD candidate at Falmouth University. He is a poet and multimedia artist. His research uses both quantitative and qualitative data to perform a cultural analysis of poetry publication, specifically with regards to digitisation. He has presented research at a number of peer-reviewed conferences including E-Poetry, The British and Irish Contemporary Poetry Symposium and the Electronic Literature Organisation (for more details about research please see section below). David co-runs the specialist poetry publishing house The New Fire Tree Press and teaches in the School of Writing & Journalism.
Creative Work
David's print work has appeared in a wide variety of magazines and anthologies, including Poetry Review, The Warwick Review and The London Magazine. He was awarded the Ictus Prize for the pamphlet Wasps on the Way (Mews Press, 2012). He also has a developing portfolio of digital work; David is a contributor in Ishac Bertran’s Code {Poems} anthology of digital code poetry and was the winner of The New Media Writing Prize 2013 Student Award, and shortlisted for both Main and Student awards. His digital work has been reviewed at the peer-reviewed conference Chercher Le Texte (Paris 2013), in the Montreal magazine Poeme Sale (Spring 2014), and he was recently interviewed about digital literature on BBC Radio Cornwall.
David has also enjoyed taking poetry and text art into a variety of performance and exhibition spaces, presenting and exhibiting multimedia poetry in a number of funded site-specific installations and performances including at the Bradford Magistrates Court (2010), the Prado Media Lab - National Museum of Spain (2013), E-Poetry (2013), the Glasgow School of Art (2014), Fascinate International Digital Arts Festival (2014), the Hatton Gallery (2015), Husk Arts Centre (2015) and the Phoenix Cube Digital Art Gallery (2015). In 2014 he won a substantial commission to create new media site specific responses as part of the research project Affective Digital Historied lead by Leicester University, some of which was published in a GPS multimedia art app by Cuttlefish Media.
| d.devanny@falmouth.ac.uk | |
| Telephone | 01326 259210 |
Research Outputs
Publications and research outputs
Article
| Devanny, David and Screeton, Becky (2021) Re-Visiting Cottingley Beck: Trash-fairies in the urban gothic. Revenant, 6. pp. 31-41. ISSN 2397-8791 |
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| Devanny, David (2016) Voice Recognition for Performance Poetry Pedgogy. Research in Drama Education, 21 (3). ISSN 1356-9783 Item availability may be restricted. |
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Book Section
| Devanny, David (2021) Speaking with Machines & Machines that Speak: Spoken Word & Digital Performance Poetry. In: Spoken Work in the UK. Routledge, London & New York, pp. 399-410. ISBN 9780367352530 Item availability may be restricted. |
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