\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ___<\/span><\/p>\n Chris McCabe<\/a> was born in Liverpool in 1977. His poetry collections are The Hutton Inquiry<\/em>, Zeppelins<\/em> and The Restructure<\/em> (Salt Publishing, 2005-2012). He has recorded a CD with The Poetry Archive and written a ‘play-in-verse’ Shad Thames, Broken Wharf<\/em>, which was performed at the London Word Festival and subsequently published by Penned in the Margins in 2010. He works as a Librarian at The Poetry Library, London, and teaches for The Poetry School.<\/p>\n “an elegy, an urban bucolic around the river and its Eastern banks” Tom Chivers<\/a> was born in South London in 1983. He is the author of How to Build a City<\/em> (Salt Publishing, 2009) and The Terrors<\/em> (Nine Arches, 2009), which was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award. He has edited four anthologies, including City State: New London Poetry<\/em> and the award-winning Adventures in Form<\/em>. Former Poet in Residence at the Bishopsgate Institute, he received an Eric Gregory Award in 2011. He is currently working with climate change organisation Cape Farewell on ADRIFT<\/a>, a year-long poetry project to explore London’s lost landscapes.<\/p>\n “Dark London history, dredged and interrogated, spits and fizzes with corrosive wit. Tom Chivers understands the risks he risks, the play in a taught rope.” Info on the Developing City website<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ___<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Siddhartha Bose<\/a> is a poet, playwright and performer based in Hackney Wick. He grew up in Mumbai and Kolkota, followed by a seven year itch in the US. He is the author of the poetry collection Kalagora<\/em> (Penned in the Margins, 2010), and his work has appeared in anthologies from Bloodaxe Books and HarperCollins. Dubbed one of the ‘ten rising stars of British poetry’ by The Times<\/em>, he is currently a Leverhulme Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London. His acclaimed debut one-man play, also called Kalagora<\/em>, toured from 2010 to 2012, including a month-long run at Edinburgh Fringe. His most recent show was London’s Perverted Children<\/em> at The Yard Theatre.<\/p>\n “Kalagora<\/em> bestrides continents and celebrates cities as engines of creativity where dogs talk in hieroglyphs and where a man can be a moth.” Tom Chivers<\/a> was born in South London in 1983. He is the author of How to Build a City<\/em> (Salt Publishing, 2009) and The Terrors<\/em> (Nine Arches, 2009), which was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award. He has edited four anthologies, including City State: New London Poetry<\/em> and the award-winning Adventures in Form<\/em>. Former Poet in Residence at the Bishopsgate Institute, he received an Eric Gregory Award in 2011. He is currently working with climate change organisation Cape Farewell on ADRIFT<\/a>, a year-long poetry project to explore London’s lost landscapes.<\/p>\nFriday: Chris McCabe & Tom Chivers<\/h2>\n
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\n– Iain Sinclair<\/p><\/blockquote>\nSaturday: Siddhartha Bose & Tom Chivers<\/h2>\n
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