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PRESS RELEASE 6 FEBRUARY 2012
ALICIA BEE LAUNCHES THE BOOK OF THE DEAD AND WOUNDED AT BRUNSWICK BOUND BOOKSTORE.
After a rock and roll concert launch at St Kilda Bowls Club in November, ALICIA BEE formally presents her second book to the literary crowd with ceremony and drinks at BRUNSWICK BOUND BOOKSTORE on SATURDAY 18 FEBRUARY 2012.
Australian rock guitarist STEVE LUCAS will do a special guest performance at the launch between 3 -6pm to compliment readings.
THE BOOK OF THE DEAD AND WOUNDED poetry collection celebrates the lives of the deceased in prose, and asks those that are left behind to respond with meditation, tears and anger.
ALICIA BEE captures the limbo left from the grief and funerary process of loosing loved ones, which she likens to an injured state in a hospital.
Tributes to dead people are boxed in the first book section like a museum collection of lifelike stuffed animals; that remind us that our memories preserve mortality after the grave.
The cringe surrounding emotions, fear of discussions of suicide and melancholy, are made taboo in glorious detail in this important release designed to change your reaction to death.
Alicia Bee writes about her relatives, friends and dead pets; exploring aging and the afterlife, in a book that tells us again that it is okay to think about the dead and the lessons they have taught us.
If poetry was ever described as depressing the form is taken as strength, for Alicia Bee revels in the dance of macabre arranging this dried flower display as a shrine for your bookshelf.
Alicia Bee’s first title BATHERS ON THE BEACH is also available through Brunswick Bound bookstore.
Join us for the launch with music entertainment on Saturday 18 February afternoon in Brunswick.
THE GOOD FOLK CLUB presents a launch of THE BOOK OF THE DEAD AND WOUNDED poetry collection by ALICIA BEE with STEVE LUCAS performing a set on SATURDAY 18 FEBRUARY 2012 at BRUNSWICK BOUND BOOKSTORE at 361 SYDNEY ROAD from 3pm till 6pm, its $25 for the book.