GOBS Collective invites you to chat and scribble your heart away at our Poetry Book Club, hosted in Nottingham Central Library 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.
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.
November 2024’s Book:
John Cooper Clarke - Ten Years in an Open-necked Shirt
`Yes, it was be there or be square as, clad in the slum chic of the hipster, he issued the slang anthems of the zip age in the desperate esperanto of the bop. John Cooper Clarke: the name behind the hairstyle, the words walk in the grooves hacking through the hi-fi paradise of true luxury' Punk. Poet. Pioneer. The Bard of Salford's seminal collection is as scabrous, wry & vivid now as it was when first published over 25 years ago. `The godfather of British performance poetry' Daily Telegraph
Includes I Wanna Be Yours, Beasley St, Twat, and Evidently Chickentown
Available at Five Leaves Bookshop https://fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/
Get a 15% discount on this book at Five Leaves by using the code GOBS
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)
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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
Anthony Anaxagorou - Heritage Aesthetics
Hannah Lowe - Chick
Warsan Shire - Blessed is the Daughter Raised by a Voice in her Head
Joseph Coelho - Overheard in a Tower Block
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Any enquiries can be directed to Bridie at info@gobscollective.org