{"product_id":"darlinghurst-funeral-ritespoems-from-the-mark-mordue-9781635878691","title":"Darlinghurst Funeral Rites\/Poems From the South Coast\/Phone Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDarlinghurst Funeral Rites\u003c\/em\u003e concerns Newcastle-born Mordue in his 20s, from his arrival in Sydney in 1981 to the middle of that decade.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Australian culture of the time derided tenderness in men. Mordue's vulnerability, receptivity to art and social injustice marked him as an outsider, and the resulting sense of otherness has always informed his work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMordue is familiar with profound and contained suffering. In this respect he is, perhaps, one of Australia's truest beat poets, shaped not only by Walt Whitman, John Keats and WH Auden but also by Bob Dylan, Marc Bolan and the Jam, and with everything that entails.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is an integrity to the looseness  of his poems], a quality of space through which his yearning for love - can be sensed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-- fr. Antonella Gambotto-Burke, \u003cem\u003eThe Australian\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ereviewed 21 Oct., 2017\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Mordue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1635878691\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781635878691\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Reprobate\/Gobq\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/31\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 114\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.23lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.00h x 5.00w x 0.24d","brand":"Mark Mordue","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44598577758463,"sku":"9781635878691","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_61ecf7b0-82c5-4c16-aa04-39c62c0cd0de.jpg?v=1702383287","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/darlinghurst-funeral-ritespoems-from-the-mark-mordue-9781635878691","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}