Nick Cave is best known for his music, working with four different bands over the past three decades, but the Australian rocker seems to be a poet at heart.

He writes lyrics that journey from the macabre to the lovelorn, and his literary bent doesn't stop there: He has also penned two novels, two screenplays and two volumes of lyrics and plays. For inspiration, he returns to poets such as Frederick Seidel, John Berryman, Ezra Pound and the ancient, anonymous poets of Jerome Rothenberg anthologies.

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