Books by David Noone

You wait three years for a new SAVAGE KICK and then three come along in a few months. Each issue full of exclusive stories that foreground the dark and fascinating underbelly of literature. SK#8 is the first of them... CONFESSIONS deals with people revealing their darkest - or sweetest - secrets. That concept has been at the core of every issue of THE SAVAGE KICK. Previous writers Robert McGowan and Steve Hussy return; along with folks like Cathi Unworth and MSP's latest member, David Noone. SK#8 Contents: --- Savage Kick's Exclusive Interview with Cathi Unsworth --- Intoxicated Man by Cathi Unsworth --- Fourth Degree Burn by Amy Yolanda Castillo --- The Fix by R.C. Rogers --- Exclusive Interview with David Noone --- Confessions of a Tennessee Lowlife by Anthony Tinsman --- Secretary by Robert McGowan --- Harvest by Steve Hussy --- Mara by Grant Flint

David Noone grew up in a small rural village in Co. Kildare, Ireland. At 14 he was first admitted for what would become a continuous series of psychiatric hospital admissions to receive treatment for Recurrent Depressive Disorder. Despite this, he began his professional writing as a music journalist for the regional arts revue Stage Left. Noone, having little access to formal education within the confines of the hospital, immersed himself in the works of Poe, Camus, Baudelaire, and Rimbaud whilst listening to the music of The Virgin Prunes, Throbbing Gristle, and The Birthday Party. At 18 he moved to Dublin and worked in and around the arts world. Over the course of this period he had several poems published in literary journals and acted as lead singer and songwriter for his bands Poppy and David Noone and The Night Porters as well as touring Britain and Ireland with his solo show David Noone sings Nick Cave. He lives and writes in Dublin, and his first novella is the gothic "Saint of the City".