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.
May 2026’s Book:
Keith Jarrett – Hide Me Under the Blood and I Shall Be Satisfied
Keith Jarrett’s Hide Me Under the Blood and I Shall Be Satisfied is the poet’s second full-length collection exploring how we process trauma when violence is written into our language. It is described as his bravest, queerest, most complex work to date — a kaleidoscopic adventure through language, culture, colonialism, sex, faith and more — that invites readers into a courageous engagement with the self and the world.
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.
Please note we have limited places available both in-person and online, so booking is essential.
GOBS Poetry Book Club is Pay What You Can (Suggested donation: £5)
When: Saturday 23 May, 11am-1pm
Where: Nottingham Central Library (Meeting Room 2), 1 Carrington Street, Nottingham, England, NG1 7FH
Hosted by: Ioney Smallhorne
Any enquiries can be directed to Bridie at 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)
Inua Ellams – The Actual
Cecilia 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
Gboyega Odubanjo – Adam
Brian Bilston – Alexa, what is there to know about love?
Amy Acre – Mothersong
Amanda Gorman – Call Us What We Carry
Ted Kooser and Connie Wanek – Marshmallow Clouds
Vanessa Kisuule - A Recipe for Sorcery
Makalani Bandele - (jopappy and the sentence-makers are) eponymous as funk
Haia Mohammed - The Age of Olive Trees
Adam Kammerling - Seder
Kostya Tsolakis - Greekling
Alex Mazey – Ghost Lives: Cursed Edition