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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.

Get 15% off your purchase now from Five Leaves Bookshop

Our friends at Five Leaves Bookshop are offering 15% off all GOBS Poetry Book Club purchases.

Buy your copy of Anthony Anaxagorou’s Heritage Aesthetics from Five Leaves Bookshop, 14a Long Row, Swann's Yard, Nottingham NG1 2DH

Or buy online from Five Leaves Bookshop’s website:

https://fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/product/heritage-aesthetics/

USE CODE ‘GOBS’ FOR 15% OFF ONLINE AND IN STORE

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

• 12pm - 1pm:
  GOBS' EARTH Showcase Performers Debrief

• 1pm - 4pm:
  Lunch is served! Everyone welcome.

Come one, come all!

Join Nottingham spoken-word collective GOBS as we celebrate the beginnings of spring with poetry performances and community vibes.

Join us for our 2024 GOBS Spring Spruce event at Antenna Nottingham. A huge thank you to Confetti Media Group for their support of this event.

The first hour of the GOBS Spring Spruce is reserved for those who've recently taken part in the EARTH Showcase - we'll have a chance to debrief about the workshop programme and showcase experience together. 

Following that, we've got some tasty grub lined up for everyone to come and enjoy alongside some springtime natter, writing activities, and some exciting news about upcoming events and opportunities. Plus, a special Sunday open mic open to all!

Expect:

• Food!

• Open mic

• GOBS writing games

• Info on upcoming opportunities and events

If you would like to come along, please RSVP by emailing Bridie on info@gobscollective.org. Please outline any dietary or access requirements.

If you are experiencing any symptoms of COVID-19 (including but not limited to fever, cough, body aches, headache, new loss of taste of smell, sore throat, congestion, runny nose, nausea, diarrhea) or feel at all unwell, we ask that you please don’t attend the GOBS Winter-Warm-Up event. We also encourage all attendees to take a COVID-19 test at home before attending.

If you've told us you're coming, please let us know as soon as possible if you're no longer able to come.

It’s a family affair! We can’t wait to see your faces once more.

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A heron lands among seashells; her rusty compass swings west…

Experience Nottingham’s most exciting spoken-word talent in a showcase curated by GOBS Collective members, co-directed by Cara Thompson and Bridie Squires, with movement direction from John Berkavitch. These poets have built work from the ground up, bringing individual stories together to create this journey through softness, hardship and magic - Earth. Developed in partnership with Apples and Snakes, with support from Nottingham Central Library and Nottingham Playhouse.

As seen at We Out Here Festival, Hockley Hustle and Nottingham Poetry Festival.

Founded in 2020, Nottingham adult spoken-word collective GOBS host poetry performances, workshops, events, book clubs, masterclasses and education programmes, meeting on a quarterly basis with various projects and opportunities rolling out throughout the year. Previously funded by Arts Council England, GOBS have performed alongside Yomi Sode, Randolph Matthews, Casey Bailey, and Debris Stevenson, and have featured on Notts TV, BBC Radio Nottingham and BBC Sounds

FEATURING

Bridie Squires
Cara Thompson
Cassie Bradley
Davina Songbird
Umbilica
Caetano Capurro
Emma Price
Beth Parker
Johnny Hughes
Ruth Singleton
Rachelle Foster
Sarah Wheatley
Marjie Griffiths
Jennifer Brough
Rehannah Mian
Bridget Leadbeater
Nipa
Hongwei

Book now at nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk

With thanks to our partners and supporters: Apples and Snakes, Nottingham Playhouse and Nottingham Central Library.

Get your Valentine's Day poetry ready in this two-hour workshop with GOBS Collective's Ben Macpherson.

Ben is a Nottingham based writer and performer whose work is filled with playfulness. He is the keeper of SMUT! The Verbal Burlesque, a night celebrating love sex and identity and he’s also one of the directors of Nottingham Poetry Festival. Ben has lead writing workshops for people of all ages, creating safe, enjoyable and judgement free spaces to explore new ideas and hone existing work. He has performed around the country including at the Edinburgh Fringe where he was a recipient of a Keep It Fringe Fund bursary in 2023. His first book was published in 2023 by Big White Shed.

£10 tickets, £7 concessions
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Get your Valentine's Day poetry ready in this two-hour workshop with GOBS Collective's Bridie Squires.

Bridie Squires is a poet, playwright, producer and performance artist from Nottingham.

Previously journalist and editor at LeftLion Magazine, she was appointed Nottingham Trent University’s first Writer in Residence in 2019, and founded Nottingham spoken-word collective GOBS in 2020.

Bridie was Producer for Nottingham Poetry Festival and Young Creative Awards, and is Production Manager at British Gestalt Journal. A Mouthy Poets alumnus, she has performed her poetry in Southbank Centre, London, Badisches Staatstheatre, Karlsruhe, and We Out Here Festival, Cambridge.

£10 tickets, £7 concessions
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Croupier needs to buy a caravan for her and her ex-gambling-addict grandad, but she’s skint.

She works Casino Zero, where pit boss Janet hounds her to eat Chum Bars for energy. Bizarre, poetic humour runs through this tale of loss, punctuated with melodic, loop-station soundscapes, crafted live with casino props.

This is a tale of minimum wage, grief and addiction. Inspired by two years of night shifts working as a croupier in a casino just around the corner from Nottingham Playhouse, this play highlights the social issues of gambling culture, caricaturing the industry through the eyes of a female, working-class writer from Nottingham.

Bridie Squires is a poet, playwright, producer and performance artist from Nottingham.

Previously journalist and editor at LeftLion Magazine, she was appointed Nottingham Trent University’s first Writer in Residence in 2019, and founded Nottingham spoken-word collective GOBS in 2020.

Bridie was Producer for Nottingham Poetry Festival and Young Creative Awards, and is Production Manager at British Gestalt Journal.

A Mouthy Poets alumnus, she has performed her poetry in Southbank Centre, London, Badisches Staatstheatre, Karlsruhe, and We Out Here Festival, Cambridge.

Bridie has performed alongside Lemn Sissay, Holly McNish, Henry Normal, Yomi Ṣode and Linton Kwesi Johnson.

She is Lead Artist at GOBS Collective, Creative Writing Tutor at Headway Nottingham, and has delivered workshops for Nottingham City Council, Archway Learning Trust, UNESCO City of Literature, and Nottingham Community Artists Network.

She was commissioned by BBC Radio 4 for Mardy, a poem for Talk and Tongue: The Dialect Poets, and was selected to take part in BBC Words First and BBC New Creatives, where she developed her audio drama Self-checkout, for BBC Sounds, in 2022.

Bridie was awarded both a Develop Your Creative Practice grant and National Lottery funding by Arts Council England to create Casino Zero - her one-woman loop station play based on her experiences as a croupier.

Bridie published her debut poetry collection Duck on Bike in 2023. She is currently collaborating with Nottingham Playhouse to continue developing Casino Zero and GOBS Collective.

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You are invited to GOBS Collective’s Autumn Meet-up 

You can expect:

Writing prompts

GOBS chat

Word Walk

Feedback opportunities

Tasty snacks

If you have work you would like feedback on, please do bring it along. We may also have a Word Walk (outdoor creative writing session) on Victoria Embankment if the weather’s nice.

At the meet-up, we will be having a good old-fashioned natter, writing together, and sharing.

If you would like to come along, please email info@gobscollective.org

You are invited to GOBS Collective’s Spring Meet-up 

You can expect:

Writing prompts

GOBS chat

Word Walk

 Feedback opportunities

Tasty snacks

If you have work you would like feedback on, please do bring it along. We may also have a Word Walk (outdoor creative writing session) on Victoria Park if the weather’s nice. Bring a packed-lunch, or there’s plenty of shops/cafes nearby.

At the meet-up, we will be having a good old-fashioned natter, and writing with a focus on 'Hope' which is the theme of Nottingham Poetry Festival this year (Friday 26 – Sunday 28 May).

If you would like to come along, please email info@gobscollective.org

GOBS Collective invites you to chat and scribble your heart away as PEEPSIN returns with poetry book club prowess, hosted in Broadway Cinema’s Lounge and via Zoom.

PEEPSIN provides a space for poets, writers, readers, performers, and artists to meet over a cuppa, and have a good chinwag over GOBS’ poetry book 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 Tuesday 14 March, 7pm-9pm, we will be looking at:

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Rendang

Will Harris

WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION

Shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize for Poetry 2020

In RENDANG, Will Harris complicates and experiments with the lyric in a way that urges it forward. With an unflinching yet generous eye, RENDANG is a collection that engages equally with the pain and promise of self-perception. Drawing on his Anglo-Indonesian heritage, Harris shows us new ways to think about the contradictions of identity and cultural memory. He creates companions that speak to us in multiple languages; they sit next to us on the bus, walk with us through the crowd and talk to us while we're chopping shallots. They deftly ask us to consider how and what we look at, as well as what we don't look at and why.

Playing eruditely with and querying structures of narrative, with his use of the long poem, images, ekphrasis, and ruptured forms, RENDANG is a startling new take on the self, and how an identity is constructed. It is intellectual and accessible, moving and experimental, and combines a linguistic innovation with a deep emotional rooting.

Available for purchase at:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rendang-Will-Harris/dp/1783785594

If you have any issues purchasing the book, please get in touch with Bridie via info@gobscollective.org

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Practical Information

PEEPSIN takes place on Tuesday 14 March, 7pm – 9pm in Broadway Cinema’s Lounge.

Broadway Cinema, 14-18 Broad St, Nottingham NG1 3AL.

Turn right at Reception, then left at the glass doors. The Lounge is at the end of the corridor.

PEEPSIN is also available to attend via Zoom – we’ll stick you on the big screen in Broadway Cinema’s Lounge.

Please note we have limited places available both in-person and online, so booking is essential.

PEEPSIN is free to attend (donations welcome) and can be booked via Eventbrite.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/.../peepsin-will-harris...

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We will be taking a break after this session and will be returning in the summer

We will be having our Spring General Meeting on Saturday 8 April

If you would like to get involved in other GOBS activity, please email Bridie on info@gobscollective.org

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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)

Inua Ellams - The Actual

Cecilia Knapp - Peach Pig

Yomi Sode - Manorisms
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GOBS Collective is supported by Apples and Snakes. A huge thank you for making PEEPSIN possible!

applesandsnakes.org
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About GOBS

GOBS Collective host poetry events and education programmes. Founded by Bridie Squires in 2020, the group formed through workshop series co-produced with Ioney Smallhorne; over 40 Nottingham artists created poetry films, digital zines and live performances alongside Debris Stevenson and Casey Bailey. The group co-founded spoken-word night SPRAYBOX with Nottingham Community Artists Network, and had a residency at Nonsuch Studios which culminated in their Full Moon showcase as part of Nottingham Poetry Festival. GOBS is supported by Apples and Snakes.

gobscollective.org

Any enquiries can be directed to info@gobscollective.org

See you soon! x

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GOBS Collective invites you to shoot the sugar and scribble your heart away as PEEPSIN returns with poetry book club prowess, hosted in Broadway Cinema’s Lounge and via Zoom.

PEEPSIN provides a space for poets, writers, readers, performers, and artists to meet over a cuppa, and have a good chinwag over GOBS’ poetry book 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 Tuesday 14 February, 7pm-9pm, we will be looking at:

Manorism

Yomi Sode

Impassioned, insightful, electric, Manorism is a poetic examination of the lives of Black British men and boys: propped up and hemmed in by contemporary masculinity, deepened by family, misrepresented in the media, and complicated by the riches, and the costs, of belonging and inheritance. It is also an exploration of the differences of impunity afforded to white and Black people, and to white and Black artists.

Caravaggio – originally, unexpectedly – looms large: as a man who moved between spheres of exalted patronage and petty criminality; as a painter who, amid the elegant conventions of late Mannerism, forged his own style of visceral dark and light; and as an individual whose recognized genius was allowed to legitimate and excuse his violence.

In this profound and moving debut, Yomi Sode asks: what does it mean to find oneself between worlds – to ‘code-switch’, adapting one’s speech and manners to widely differing cultural contexts? Who is, and who isn’t, allowed to be more than their origins? And what do we owe each other? What do we owe ourselves?

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Published: October 6, 2022

ISBN: 9780141998572

128 pages

Country of publication: United Kingdom

The book is available for purchase at Five Leaves Bookshop, 4a Long Row W, Nottingham NG1 2DH

Or via the Five Leaves Bookshop website

Get 15% off your order of Manorism using the code MANORISM15 at the Five Leaves website.

If you have any issues purchasing the book, please get in touch with Bridie via info@gobscollective.org

Practical Information

PEEPSIN takes place on Tuesday 14 February, 7pm – 9pm in Broadway Cinema’s Lounge.

Broadway Cinema, 14-18 Broad St, Nottingham NG1 3AL.

Turn right at Reception, then left at the glass doors. The Lounge is at the end of the corridor.

PEEPSIN is also available to attend via Zoom – we’ll stick you on the big screen in Broadway Cinema’s Lounge.

Please note we have limited places available both in-person and online, so booking is essential.

PEEPSIN is free to attend (donations welcome) and can be booked via Eventbrite.

_________________________________________

Future PEEPSIN dates for your diary

Tuesday 14 March 2023

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)

Inua Ellams - The Actual

Cecilia Knapp - Peach Pig

GOBS Collective is supported by Apples and Snakes. A huge thank you for making PEEPSIN possible!

applesandsnakes.org

About GOBS

GOBS Collective host poetry events and education programmes. Founded by Bridie Squires in 2020, the group formed through workshop series co-produced with Ioney Smallhorne; over 40 Nottingham artists created poetry films, digital zines and live performances alongside Debris Stevenson and Casey Bailey. The group co-founded spoken-word night SPRAYBOX with Nottingham Community Artists Network, and had a residency at Nonsuch Studios which culminated in their Full Moon showcase as part of Nottingham Poetry Festival. GOBS is supported by Apples and Snakes.

gobscollective.org

Any enquiries can be directed to info@gobscollective.org

See you soon! x

Bridie and Ioney host GOBS' November poetry book club with Young People’s Laureate for London, Forward Prize-shortlisted author Cecilia Knapp's debut collection.

GOBS Collective invites you to shoot the sugar and scribble your heart away as PEEPSIN returns with poetry book club prowess, hosted in Broadway Cinema’s Lounge and via Zoom.

PEEPSIN provides a space for poets, writers, readers, performers, and artists to meet over a cuppa, and have a good chinwag over GOBS’ poetry book 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 Tuesday 8 November, 7pm-9pm, we will be looking at:

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Peach Pig
Cecilia Knapp
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The debut collection from the Young People’s Laureate for London, Forward Prize-shortlisted author

In her devastatingly powerful debut collection, Cecilia Knapp examines the experience of motherlessness and its lasting impact, as well as the lessons passed between generations of women.

These poems explore women’s complicated relationship with their bodies, with sex, and with shame as she traverses the violence of romantic love, but also employs humour and mischief, a wry reclaiming of power.

We hear stories of a challenging childhood in a seaside town, a girl growing up, getting out and reckoning with the guilt of being ‘one of these people now.’

The collection also offers a look at Knapp’s close relationship with her older brother, his struggles with addiction and, eventually, his death. With tenderness, she remembers him and unpacks the unique grief that comes after a suicide.

Peach Pig is a candid and unflinching look at loss, an attempt to find a language for it. It grapples with feelings of anxiety, insecurity and displaced anger; but it is also a collection full of dreams, hope and vibrant persistence, a willingness to question and to carry on.

Format: Paperback
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group (Corsair)
Published: October 6, 2022
ISBN: 9781472156815
96 pages
Country of publication: United Kingdom
£10.99

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The book is available for purchase at Five Leaves Bookshop, 4a Long Row W, Nottingham NG1 2DH

Or via the Five Leaves Bookshop website

G et 15% off your order of Peach Pig when you quote GOBS BOOK CLUB in store at Five Leaves.

If you have any issues purchasing the book, please get in touch with Bridie via info@gobscollective.org

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PEEPSIN takes place on Tuesday 8 November, 7pm – 9pm in Broadway Cinema’s Lounge.

Broadway Cinema, 14-18 Broad St, Nottingham NG1 3AL.

Turn right at Reception, then left at the glass doors. The Lounge is at the end of the corridor.

PEEPSIN is also available to attend via Zoom – we’ll stick you on the big screen in Broadway Cinema’s Lounge.

Please note we have limited places available both in-person and online, so booking is essential.

PEEPSIN is free to attend (donations welcome) and can be booked via Eventbrite.

BOOK HERE

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Future PEEPSIN dates for your diary

Tuesday 14 February 2023

Tuesday 14 March 2023

PEEPSIN takes place on the second Tuesday of every month excluding our December/January Christmas break.

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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

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GOBS Collective is supported by Apples and Snakes. A huge thank you for making PEEPSIN possible!

applesandsnakes.org

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About GOBS

GOBS Collective host poetry events and education programmes. Founded by Bridie Squires in 2020, the group formed through workshop series co-produced with Ioney Smallhorne; over 40 Nottingham artists created poetry films, digital zines and live performances alongside Debris Stevenson and Casey Bailey. The group co-founded spoken-word night SPRAYBOX with Nottingham Community Artists Network, and had a residency at Nonsuch Studios which culminated in their Full Moon showcase as part of Nottingham Poetry Festival. GOBS is supported by Apples and Snakes.

gobscollective.org

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Any enquiries can be directed to info@gobscollective.org

See you soon! x

PEEPSIN takes place on Tuesday 8 November, 7pm - 9pm, in Broadway Cinema's Lounge, Nottingham

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GOBS Collective invite you to their monthly poetry book club.

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GOBS Collective invites you to shoot the sugar and scribble your heart away as PEEPSIN returns with poetry book club prowess, hosted in Broadway Cinema’s Lounge and via Zoom.

PEEPSIN provides a space for poets, writers, readers, performers, and artists to meet over a cuppa, and have a good chinwag over GOBS’ poetry book 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 Tuesday 11 October, 7pm-9pm, we will be looking at:

The Actual

Ellams, Inua

Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2021. The Actual is a symphony of personal and political fury-sometimes probing delicately, sometimes burning with raw energy. In 55 poems that swerve and crackle with a rare music, Inua Ellams unleashes a full-throated assault on empire and its legacies of racism, injustice and toxic masculinity. Written on the author’s phone, in transit, between meetings, before falling asleep and just after waking, this is poetry as polemic, as an act of resistance, but also as dream-vision.

At its heart, this book confronts the absolutism and ‘foolish machismo’ of hero culture-from Perseus to Trump, from Batman to Boko Haram. Through the thick gauze of history, these breathtaking poems look the world square in the face and ask, “What the actual-?”. ‘This is what poetry looks like when you have nothing to lose, when you speak from the heart, when you have spent years honing your craft so that you can be free.

This is what poetry looks like when you are a word sorcerer, a linguistic swordsman, a metaphor-dazzler, a passionate creator of poetry as fire, as lament, as beauty, as reflection, as argument, as home. I was blown away by this book’- Bernardine Evaristo

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Penned in the Margins

Published: October 5, 2020

ISBN: 9781908058782

80 pages

Country of publication: United Kingdom

£9.99

The book is available for purchase at Five Leaves Bookshop, 4a Long Row W, Nottingham NG1 2DH

Or via the Five Leaves Bookshop website

If you have any issues purchasing the book, please get in touch with Bridie via info@gobscollective.org

Practical Information

PEEPSIN takes place on Tuesday 11 October, 7pm – 9pm in Broadway Cinema’s Lounge.

Broadway Cinema, 14-18 Broad St, Nottingham NG1 3AL.

Turn right at Reception, then left at the glass doors. The Lounge is at the end of the corridor.

PEEPSIN is also available to attend via Zoom – we’ll stick you on the big screen in Broadway Cinema’s Lounge.

Please note we have limited places available both in-person and online, so booking is essential.

PEEPSIN is free to attend (donations welcome) and can be booked via Eventbrite.

_________________________________________

Future PEEPSIN dates for your diary

Tuesday 8 November 2022

Tuesday 14 February 2023

Tuesday 14 March 2023

PEEPSIN takes place on the second Tuesday of every month excluding our December/January Christmas break.

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)

GOBS Collective is supported by Apples and Snakes. A huge thank you for making PEEPSIN possible!

applesandsnakes.org

About GOBS

GOBS Collective host poetry events and education programmes. Founded by Bridie Squires in 2020, the group formed through workshop series co-produced with Ioney Smallhorne; over 40 Nottingham artists created poetry films, digital zines and live performances alongside Debris Stevenson and Casey Bailey. The group co-founded spoken-word night SPRAYBOX with Nottingham Community Artists Network, and had a residency at Nonsuch Studios which culminated in their Full Moon showcase as part of Nottingham Poetry Festival. GOBS is supported by Apples and Snakes.

gobscollective.org

Any enquiries can be directed to info@gobscollective.org

BOOK NOW

See you soon! x

GOBS Collective invites you to shoot the sugar and scribble your heart away as PEEPSIN returns with poetry book club prowess, this time hosted in Broadway Cinema’s Lounge and via Zoom.

PEEPSIN provides a space for poets, writers, readers, performers, and artists to meet over a cuppa, and have a good chinwag over GOBS’ poetry book 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.

For this session, we will be looking at:

Your Family, Your Body
Modern Poets Three
Malika Booker, Sharon Olds and Warsan Shire

For more information and to register your free place, please visit Eventbrite.
Register now

Catch GOBS Collective at We Out Here Festival in Cambridgeshire this year! The legendary festival, founded by Gilles Peterson, sees incredible artists like Quantic, Mr Scruff and Channel One Soundsystem, plus a whole host of Nottingham crews like our mates at The Carousel who will be running arts activities as part of the Families programme.

From GOBS, you can expect to receive poetry with a collective twist from founders Bridie Squires and Ioney Smallhorne , alongside members Cara Thompson and Francesca Mesce. Catch us in the Talks Tent on Sunday 28 August, 7pm - 8pm

We Out Here takes place in Abbots Ripton in Cambridgeshire, 25-28 August 2022

weoutherefestival.com

Join us for an evening of full-moon-inspired poetry performances punctuated by the incredible sounds of Randolph Matthews. GOBS have been in residency at Nonsuch Studios for the past few months, working together with Lead Writers Ioney Smallhorne and Bridie Squires, as well as a host of incredible artists – including Apples and Snakes’ John Berkavitch – to produce a showcase of poetic talent.

Tickets available at nottinghampoetryfestival.com

GOBS Collective invite you to our monthly poetry book club. We meet at Mimm Studios on the second Tuesday of every month at 7pm to discuss the poetry books that inspire us, with writing activities sparked off the back of the content. This month, we’re reading Casey Bailey’s Please Do Not Touch. The session is also accessible via Zoom.

For more information and to register your free place, visit Eventbrite here

GOBS Collective and Nottingham Community Artist Network present a blend of local legends and unheard poetic talent in The Chapel, upstairs in The Angel Microbrewery.

Tickets £6 on the door

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