Adrian Harte
Location: Switzerland via Monaghan
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Adrian Harte is Irish but has lived in Switzerland for 20 years. He has been published in the Peregrine Journal, Vita Poetica, Beaver, Embryo Concepts Zine, A New Ulster, Awakenings, Roi Fainéant Press, and Abridged. He has also written, to critical acclaim and commercial success, Small Victories: The True Story of Faith No More (Jawbone 2018).
His second book and debut poetry collection, Red Rite Hand is out now (September 2023). It is a startling and intense exploration of the poet in his world, with poems of humour, love, and trauma.
Books
Small Victories: The True Story of Faith No More
Small Victories: The True Story of Faith No More is the definitive biography of one of the most intriguing bands of the late twentieth century.
Written with the participation of the group’s key members, it tells how such a heterogeneous group formed, flourished, and fractured, and how Faith No More helped redefine rock, metal and alternative music. The book chronicles the creative and personal tensions that defined and fueled the band, forensically examines the band’s beginnings in San Francisco’s postpunk wasteland, and charts the factors behind the group’s ascent to MTVera stardom.Small Victories strips away the mythology and misinformation behind their misanthropic masterpiece Angel Dust, explores the rationale behind the frequent hiring and firing of band members, and traces the unraveling of the band in the mid1990s. It also examines the band’s breakup and hiatus, explores their unwelcome legacy as numetal godfathers, and gives a behind-the-scenes view of their rebirth.
Based on meticulous research and hundreds of interviews with current and former band members and other key figures, Small Victories combines a fan’s passion with a reporter’s perspicacity.
Red Rite Hand
Adrian Harte’s poetry collection is a startling and intense exploration of the poet in his world, with poems of humour, love, and trauma. Harte dissects and examines life with honesty and courage, and a baffled outrage at the inhumanity of much of the modern world.
Richly evocative, Red Rite Hand is a triumphant first collection, remarkable for the poetic skill of the writer and the control and passion of his work.
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