A nocturnal walking tour through one of east London’s most atmospheric landscapes.

Poet, librarian and literary investigator Chris McCabe is on a mission to discover one great, lost poet in the Victorian cemeteries of London – from Nunhead to West Norwood, and Highgate to Abney Park. For the Spitalfields Winter Festival, Chris has turned his attention to the beautiful Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park in Mile End, shedding new light on poets including Henry James and Shakespeare as well as unearthing four lost poets amongst the overgrown paths and fallen headstones.

Join Chris and special guests for a nocturnal walking tour like no other. In one of east London’s most atmospheric landscapes, witness a ritual awakening of voices lost to history through poetry, live strings and a disembodied essay.

I think of the close reading and transfixed husbandry Chris McCabe brings to his task of subtle recovery, his passage among the suburban dead. This is a fine, achieved work, close-woven, elusive, engaged.

Iain Sinclair

Chris McCabe Poet
Nick Murray Viola

Approximate running times 60 minutes (no interval)

Please dress for the weather