Beautiful Waste: Poems by David McComb - Softcover

Coughran, Chris; Lucy, Niall

 
9781921361708: Beautiful Waste: Poems by David McComb

Inhaltsangabe

Published for the first time, this collection gathers the poetry of David McComb, the gifted and enigmatic songwriter and lead singer of the Triffids. Written during his 20s and 30s, when the band’s output peaked, these perceptive pieces explore and confront topics such as addiction, pop culture, and the colloquial and metaphysical. Illuminating a hitherto neglected aspect of the artist’s creative brilliance, this collection will strike a chord with anyone with an interest in contemporary poetry or the music of David McComb.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

David McComb was an Australian musician and signer-songwriter who formed the critically acclaimed punk rock band the Triffids in 1978. He later wrote and performed with such bands as the Blackeyed Susans and the Red Ponies. He died in 1999 at the age of 36. Chris Coughran is an honorary research fellow with the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. His writing has appeared in numerous collections and scholarly journals.Niall Lucy is a research fellow in the humanities at Curtin University of Technology. He is the author ofA Derrida Dictionary and Postmodern Literary Theory. John Kinsella is an award-winning Australian poet and writer. He is an Extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University, and a research fellow at the University of Western Australia.

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