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Temporarily out of stock
Title: Darlinghurst Funeral Rites
Author: MORDUE MARK
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/10/2017
Imprint: NEW SOUTH WALES UNI PRESS
Price: $22.00
Publishing status: Active
Darlinghurst Funeral Rites is a collection of poems by the writer and
journalist Mark Mordue. Its also a song cycle that takes the reader on a
journey through Marks experiences in the Sydney post-punk music scene of the
1980s. It begins with his arrival in the big city, his immersion in the culture
and the spirit of the times, his deep contact with bands, art and films as a
leading rock journalist of the era, the corresponding hedonism and bohemianism
that characterised iconic suburbs like Newtown, Surry Hills and Darlinghurst, and
the disintegration of that world as a relationship ends and drugs, disillusion
and displacement overtake peoples lives. The nature of the book is effectively
a Dante-esque journey though Sydney in the post-punk 1980s. As such it is both
a personal and a cultural history of the times: a creative history and
internalised autobiography of a now mythical era.
ISBN: 9780995409835
Dimension: 230mm X 150mm