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Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 Darlinghurst Funeral Rites
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'Darlinghurst Funeral Rites is a collection of poems by the writer and journalist Mark Mordue. It’s also a song cycle that takes the reader on a journey through Mark’s 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 people’s 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.'  (Publication summary)

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    • Yarraville, Footscray - Maribyrnong area, Melbourne - West, Melbourne, Victoria,: Transit Lounge , 2017 .
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      • Published October 2017

      ISBN: 9780995409835

Works about this Work

Poetry of Love and Time, and Time and Loss Antonella Gambotto , 2017 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 21 October 2017; (p. 22)

'Mark Mordue is an Australian critic, journalist, poet and, at age 57, newspaper editor, of the new inner-Sydney monthly Neighbourhood. He has been working for years on a biography of rock star Nick Cave. For now, though, we have a slimmer and more personal book, Darlinghurst Funeral Rites.' (Introduction)

Poetry of Love and Time, and Time and Loss Antonella Gambotto , 2017 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 21 October 2017; (p. 22)

'Mark Mordue is an Australian critic, journalist, poet and, at age 57, newspaper editor, of the new inner-Sydney monthly Neighbourhood. He has been working for years on a biography of rock star Nick Cave. For now, though, we have a slimmer and more personal book, Darlinghurst Funeral Rites.' (Introduction)

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