Mark Mordue

Mark Mordue has worked as an internationally published writer for the last forty years, consistently published across mainstream, literary and counter-culture media. Known as a ground-breaking rock journalist, his career embraces poetry, travel writing, award-winning criticism, and a recently acclaimed biography, Boy on Fire – The Young Nick Cave. Mark’s most recent poetry books are Darlinghurst Funeral Rites (Transit Lounge, Melbourne, 2018; Reprobate Books, USA, 2019) and Via Us: Poems From Inside the Corona (Riders on a Storm/Illuminated Manuscripts, 2020): “I think rock ‘n’ roll taught me to be free in my approach and to draw on anything and everything to do great work. Rock journalism infuses most of the stories I’ve written, and is as much about an independent attitude and energy as anything else. I think it connects to a more passionate, poetic and intuitive criticism and way of writing about people and places. The lyricism flows into all my work.”