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Nick Cave • Faith, Hope and Carnage
Burns was
Jean McNeil • The Dhow House
The creative journey
Nick Cave • Faith, Hope and Carnage
but continued a love affair with language and meaning as texture and material.
James Bridle • Why I Write
bereaved,
Nick Cave • Faith, Hope and Carnage
His wife had left guilt behind her as well as memories; it coloured her wake like a dark stain.
Christopher Burns • A Division of the Light
With songwriting, there are always these little glimmers embedded in all the scrambled nonsense and false starts and failed ideas.
Nick Cave • Faith, Hope and Carnage
people like Tranströmer and Ondaatje and Wisława Szymborska are touchstones for me. It’s a long list: George Seferis, Anne Carson, Charles Simic, Sharon Olds, Seamus Heaney: anyone who has found a way to sidestep conventional syntax.