Sick airline passenger? Or Nick Cave jotting down notes for his new book?
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Nick Cave, renaissance man and “musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, composer and occasional film actor,” spends a lot of time on airplanes. So, in some way, maybe it makes sense that his new book, Sick Bag Song, will be printed on reproductions of sick bags. (For our American readers, sick bags are also known as airplane barf bags.)

The Sick Bag Song, the new book from Nick Cave was inspired by the Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds North American tour in 2014. It began life as notes scribbled on airline sick bags during the 22-city journey and grew into a restless, full-length, epic poem, seeking out the roots of inspiration, love and meaning.

The Sick Bag Song will be available in two editions; the Unlimited Edition includes a boxed hardcover, an audio download of the book read by Cave, and an ebook.

The Limited Edition, 220 are being made of these, will get you your own personalized sick bag, “signed and personally customised by Nick Cave with notes, doodles and musings, a signed and numbered special edition of The Sick Bag Song book, a limited pressing of Nick Cave reading the book on a white vinyl double LP.” It’s available for the bargain price of 750 pounds, so you’ll probably not want to take that on any plane trips you have coming up.

It’s definitely possible that Cave just ate some bad seeds and this idea is what came out. (My editor forced me to make this joke.) I’m not sure I’d shell out for a book made out of barf bags, but maybe it will inspire some enterprising soul who suffers from airplane sickness to make literary themed barf bags. Moby-Sick? House of (Dry) Heaves? Great Expectorations?

Enjoy your lunch!