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y separately published work icon Vagabond Holes : David McComb and the Triffids anthology   autobiography   biography   column   criticism   essay   interview   poetry   prose   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 Vagabond Holes : David McComb and the Triffids
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Fremantle, Fremantle area, South West Perth, Perth, Western Australia,:Fremantle Press , 2009 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
A Sea of Plastic Daffodils, Graham Lee , single work prose
A tribute to Australian singer/songwriter, David McComb
 (p. 159-162)
The Shape of a Secret, Mick Harvey , single work prose
A tribute to Australian singer/songwriter, David McComb.
 (p. 163-164)
How to Climb Inside a Song and Disappear Completelyi"there's always a hole somewhere", Sean Whelan , single work poetry (p. 165-166)
Note: Written as Sean M. Whelan
This is Not a Swan Song, Niall Lucy , single work column (p. 167-169)
The Black Swan, Phil Kakulas , single work column (p. 171-174)
Please Take me Home, Chris Coughran , Nathan Laurent , single work criticism
'While it is tempting to conclude that [McComb's song] 'Jerdacuttup Man' is nothing more than an arresting allegory for McComb's own (self-imposed) exile in London ... [the song] is nevertheless imbued with an implicit understanding that evolutionary archaeology and attendant museological practices [were] developed within a prevailing discourse of colonialism ... [The song] resonates with contemporaneous indigenous struggles such as the campain to repatriate the head of Nyungar warrior Yagan - an 'artefact' ...' (177)
 (p. 175-180)
Towards a Minor Music, Niall Lucy , single work essay (p. 181-194)
Bladder Wrack, Gavin Martin , single work essay (p. 195-203)
Blessed Bei"Blessed be", David McComb , single work poetry (p. 204)
The Cliffe, Bleddyn Butcher , single work biography (p. 211-218)
The Cliffei"Our house", David McComb , single work poetry (p. 219)
Elegy Fori"Concurrent, we fill the city", John Kinsella , single work poetry (p. 221-224)
Happy Wheels, Robert McComb , single work autobiography (p. 231-236)
Noise Works, Niall Lucy , single work column (p. 239-243)
McComb's Ambivalent Romanticism, Wilson Neate , single work criticism
'...certain aspects of romantic aesthetics are useful for approaching McComb's work, not simply because of the ways in which it embodies them but, more importantly, because of how it departs from them.' (245)
 (p. 245-264)
Love in Bright Landscapes : McComb's Lyricism, Chris Coughran , single work criticism
'At its most luminous, McComb's body of work limns the murky distinction between literary and popular culture, suggesting as it does the plight of a wayfarer who must endlessly negotiate an uncertain terrain, the perfidious interstices between 'rock' and a hard place.' (279)
 (p. 269-279)
Vivid Fragments, Megan Heyward , single work prose (p. 283-287)
Precious Spirit Escapesi"sometimes i get kinda confused", Steve Kilbey , single work poetry (p. 289-294)
The Listening Boy, Sam Twyford-Moore , single work criticism (p. 295-298)
South by South-West, Jonathan Alley , single work column (p. 300-302)
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