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Beautiful Waste: Poems by David McComb (The Triffids)

by David McComb edited by Chris Coughran & Niall Lucy

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Editor
Chris Coughran, Niall Lucy
About the Book

Brilliant songwriter and lead singer of the Triffids, David McComb, died in 1999 leaving behind a legacy of evocative music. Always more than a pop musician, McComb was a perceptive poet who explored and confronted addiction, pop culture, the colloquial and the metaphysical.

Collected and published for the first time, this is the poetry McComb wrote during his 20s and 30s when the Triffids’ musical output was at its height.

Introduced by renowned poet John Kinsella, the poems will delight fans of popular music and contemporary poetry alike. Beautiful Waste illuminates a hitherto neglected aspect of McComb’s creative brilliance.

‘You get the feeling he could hate and love to excess, but his poetry melds these extremes …’ John Kinsella

Categories
Poetry, Sport, Travel, Entertainment
Publication Year
2009
Edition
1
Publisher
Fremantle Press
ISBN13
9781921361708
HB/PB
Paperback
Format
B Format (192mm x 128mm)
Pages
96
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