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Launch: Liz Allen 'Body Language'

Event Details

Time: February 19, 2012 from 3:30pm to 6:30pm
Location: Gleebooks
Street: 49 Glebe Pt Rd
City/Town: Glebe
Website or Map: https://www.facebook.com/even…
Event Type: launch, members, book
Organized By: Vagabond Press
Latest Activity: Feb 14, 2012

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We're absolutely stoked to announce the release of Elizabeth Allen's long-awaited debut collection, "Body Language", to be launched by Elizabeth Webby on February 19 at Gleebooks. Please come along and share time and poetry with us.

"Elizabeth Allen is a poet who impresses with her ability to gain meaning from the most subtle contingencies of life. Sensitive, understated and intense, lyrical but grounded, this is a strong and assured collection."

Adam Aitken

"The poems in Elizabeth Allen’s Body Language explore notions of identity and selfhood inflected by the knowledge and reality of death, that great leveller. They are also meditations on loss and acceptance, the joys of daily life. I am impressed by the risks she takes—being true to the experience but, most importantly, remaining true to the materiality of the poem itself. Quietly, and in her own time, Allen has become a poet, a poet of the body but also of the heart."

Nicolette Stasko