ARGONAUT BOOKS

Join us for a relaxed chat about a different poetry collection or poet each month. The poetry book club is for first time poetry readers and veteran poetry lovers alike; with no pressure to read aloud yourself if you would rather listen.

Our book this month is 'Horses' by Jake Skeets

The landscape of the Navajo Nation is in the grip of dramatic transformation. Sand dune migration has led to drought and 191 horses have been found drowned in a stock pond filled with mud.

Opening with a meditation on this loss, Horses is an electric response to crisis: a reclamation of land, imagination and language; a fierce act of protest; and a song for the beauty of nature. It evokes both the end of a world and a sense of emergence amid chaos, a new dawn flickering on the horizon.

'Somewhere in a dune field

I am hunched over like a comma

studying the way a landfill

can be mistaken for a sky'

FAQs

How long does each book club last?

Each book club is an hour and a half, ending around 8.30pm.

Do I have to finish reading the book before coming along?

Ideally, but no! If you can't, or don't want to, finish the book, we still want to hear your thoughts. We will however spoil every aspect of the book during discussion.