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.
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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!
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.
Any enquiries can be directed to info@gobscollective.org
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See you soon! x