{"id":3300,"date":"2019-01-16T22:08:44","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T22:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/?post_type=product&p=3300"},"modified":"2023-01-08T12:54:24","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T12:54:24","slug":"ruffian-ready-sale-the-debris-field","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/product\/ruffian-ready-sale-the-debris-field\/","title":{"rendered":"RUFFIAN READY SALE: The Debris Field"},"content":{"rendered":"You will now listen to my voice.
My voice will guide you and help you
to go deeper into the debris field…<\/em><\/strong>\r\n\r\n

RMS Titanic<\/em> was the largest and most opulent passenger steamship in the world. Four days into her maiden crossing of the Atlantic, on 14 April 1912, she struck an iceberg and sank with huge loss of life.\r\n\r\n

The Debris Field<\/em> began as a multi-media poetry production devised, written and performed by Chris McCabe, Simon Barraclough and Isobel Dixon. It explores aspects of the ship\u2019s extraordinary story, drawing on the decades of cultural debris accumulated around the story of the tragic ship \u2013 from its construction to its sinking, from the immensity of the cosmos to the tiny bacteria now devouring the wreck. In performance, the poets\u2019 words are fused with sound and image, accompanied by music composed by Oli Barrett and film by Jack Wake-Walker.\r\n\r\n

The book edition contains the complete text of this highly seductive collaborative poem, with its subtly shifting moods, its multiple haunted voices and deftly deployed collages, in an edition which emulates the look and feel of a drowned book, recently recovered.\r\n\r\n

…we knew
as we looked back for the final time
\u2013 our emptiness fluted by the wind of the beach \u2013
\u2013 our first memories expiring into the blue \u2013
\u2013 a cot, a curtain, a rail of stars \u2013
we knew by the lights in the mouths of our lovers
that everything had changed forever<\/em><\/strong>\r\n\r\n

“The Debris Field somehow makes its way through the <\/em>Titanic ice-field, avoiding clich\u00e9.”
– Fiona Moore, Displacement<\/em>\r\n\r\n
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