Indie rock

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Includes bibliographical references."Indie Rock candidly focuses on a queer poet/musician's life in Newfoundland, and his personal struggles with addiction, OCD, and trauma. This intelligent and punchy collection is steeped in musicality and the geographies and cadences of Newfoundland. With an astute attention to form, rhythm, and aesthetics, Joe Bishop tells an honest and contemporary coming-of-age story about an artist alienated from, but fascinated by, the world he inhabits. Readers dealing with grief and living through recovery will find solace in these poems, as will those conflicted by faith, curious about the rigid confines of masculinity, or yearning to hear a voice like theirs in verse. At its core, Indie Rock is about keeping records, an artist's compulsion to make art, and the power of love and imagination to overcome death."--Issued also in electronic formats.I. Patrick Street on St. Paddy's Day ; Live at the Battery ; Carpentry ; Devil-Ma-Click ; After a three-month friendship ; After our AA meeting ; Quitting ; Conception Bay woman ; Don't worry about me, Mike -- II. Parade Street duo (April Fools) ; Time-lapse (first sleepover) ; Medley for my banshee ; Barely audible lament ; Lowdown, lowdown ; We idled at the ship ; Boxing Day (cabin fever) ; Ash Wednesday -- III. Remembrance Day ; Canada Day pyro ; Yankee boys of Argentia ; Dance song ; Farm Museum fundraiser ; Heave-up song ; Dirty Newfoundlanders ; Evening on Livingstone Street ; Gary ; Father's Day ; Gooseberry Cove ; Jinker ; Root cellar blues ; Young feller's tale ; Little sea-song -- IV. Overture ; Saltbox ; Dear Digger ; Arty relative ; Enlightened poets ; Dissociative song ; Outsider art ; Celluloid tango ; Danny Boy ; I believe he would believe me not completely -- V. Victoria Day in Heart's Delight ; Touching lines ; Inherited thumbnail ; Nuclear runoff ; Laps at the University pool ; Off season pitch ; Release ; Pinnacle or ; Scrupulous music ; East Coast Trail ; Midnight