GOBS Poetry Book Club: Alex Mazey – Ghost Lives: Cursed Edition

Join us to chat about Alex Mazey's Ghost Lives: Cursed Edition, followed by writing activities inspired by the collection. 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. April 2026’s Book: Alex Mazey – Ghost Lives: Cursed Edition Alex Mazey’s Ghost Lives: Cursed Edition is a genre-defying poetry collection where a playful text art sequence follows Ghost through a hyperreal metropolis beset with neoliberal temptation and eschatological peril. Woven between the visuals are virtuosic lyric poems that are poignant, philosophical and irreverent. Mazey gamifies this astute collection with an intricate plexus of symbolism, mysticism, numerology, reference and ritual. Haunting and haunted, Ghost Lives paints an eerily recognisable picture of how it feels to be lonely — or, in other words, to be human. 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) 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 25 April, 11am–1pm Where: Nottingham Central Library (Meeting Room 2), 1 Carrington Street, Nottingham, England, NG1 7FH Who: Hosted by Sarah Wheatley 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 Haia Mohammed – The Age of Olive Trees Adam Kammerling – Seder Kostya Tsolakis – Greekling