GOBS Collective invites you to chat and scribble your heart away as our Poetry Book Club returns, this time hosted in the brand new Nottingham Central Library (Meeting Room 2) and via Zoom.
GOBS Poetry Book Club provides a space for poets, writers, readers, performers, and artists to meet over a cuppa, and have a good chinwag over our poetry collection of the month. For the first half of the session we’ll talk about the book, and in the second half we’ll do some focussed writing exercises based on our favourite poems.
Obviously it’s preferable that you read the book before you come along, but if you don’t get chance and fancy heading down anyway just pop along and there’s sure to be something for you to say, listen to, or write. No judgement.
On Saturday 20 April, 11am-1pm, we will be looking at:
Heritage Aesthetics
Anthony Anaxagorou
Witty and wide-ranging, Heritage Aesthetics draws from Anthony’s family’s migratory histories – between Cyprus and the UK – to interrogate patriarchy, xenophobia and national divides. Spanning from the British Empire to the contemporary moment, Anaxagorou unpacks the travelogues of colonial writers and military men alongside experiences of racism in the present.
Yet this collection never settles into being ‘about’ identity or contemporary culture. Anthony’s adept, eviscerating eye continues to complicate – looking at how perception is shaped, how we perform our politics, and how we love what is hard to love. Offering no easy answers, Anaxagorou instead calls for a deeper interrogation of the ways in which we’re living and performing.
Fearless, intensely honest and hopeful, Heritage Aesthetics merges Anthony’s gift for performance and his brilliant experimentation with form to create a vivid insistence to communicate a self in the world.
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Practical Information
GOBS Poetry Book Club takes place in Nottingham Central Library (Meeting Room 2)
1 Carrington St., Nottingham NG1 7FH
On Saturday 20 April, 11am - 1pm
GOBS Poetry Book Club is also available to attend via Zoom. We will send everyone a Zoom link just before the session.
Please note we have limited places available both in-person and online, so booking is essential.
GOBS Poetry Book Club is free to attend (donations welcome) and can be booked via Eventbrite.
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Future GOBS Poetry Book Club dates for your diary
Sat 25 May: Hannah Lowe - Chick
Sat 22 June: Warsan Shire - Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
Sat 27 July: Jasmine Cooray - Inheritance
All titles available from Five Leaves Bookshop in store and online, at a 15% discount using the code GOBS
All sessions will take place in Nottingham Central Library from 11am-1pm
If you would like to get involved in other GOBS activity, please email Bridie on info@gobscollective.org
At previous events, we've looked at:
Caleb Femi - Poor
Tolu Agbelusi - Locating Strongwoman
Caroline Bird - The Air Year
Ella Frears - I am the Mother Cat
Kae Tempest – Running Upon the Wires
Roger Robinson - A Portable Paradise
Malika Booker, Sharon Olds & Warsan Shire - Your Family, Your Body (Modern Poets Three)
I nua Ellams - The Actual
C ecilia Knapp - Peach Pig
Yomi Sode - Manorisms
Will Harris - Rendang
Thank you to Apples and Snakes, Five Leaves Bookshop, and Nottingham Central Library, for supporting the GOBS Poetry Book Club