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The Debris Field is a new multi-media production exploring the sinking of the Titanic, written and performed by poets and poetry school tutors Simon Barraclough, Isobel Dixon and Chris McCabe being shown at the BFI on the 14th April. The evocative poetic text is accompanied by original music from Oli Barrett of Bleeding Heart Narrative, and film by Jack Wake-Walker. The poets talk here about the inspiration behind their writing, lost manuscripts and uncovered relationships with the ship.

Merry Christmas everyone!

It was only after we booked Chris McCabe for his new course 'The Plural Experiment', that we found out that his poetry was actually pretty 'experimental'. We should have guessed from the title really. Anyway, we thought we'd try and see how experimental he really is by giving him an unrelated task whilst at the same time ripping off the Metro. We asked him questions, to which he was only allowed to answer in 140 characters. He passed our experimental test, and he also gave us a poem! To book on to his course, which focuses on the any number of poetic tropes bordering the norm: the tradition of experimentation, Fluxus, Concrete poetry, Projective Verse, randomness, using the syllable, simultaneity etc, click here.