The best teaching experience outside my normal gigs for many years. An extraordinary thing Jacob Sam La Rose has done setting up and running Barbican Young Poets for nearly two decades. And in the spirit of expansiveness he has created, he invited me, on April 8th, a bit outside of the norm perhaps, and new to the set up, certainly. The poets led by Jacob and his team were uniformly alive to ideas. Really advanced in their work, they were all motivated, supportive, enthusiastic, and it seemed, very keen to hear ideas around innovative live literature. Again a massive credit to Jacob for creating such an incubator for curiosity as a means to development. I shared a lot of my own development in live literature, from talking performances and improv to sound poetry, and how I think through context and time and space and audience and things like that. I focused in on Performance Literature as a specific thing too, rooted in live literary traditions, something separate from other live mediums. I taught with a kind of meta-example at one point, leading an improvisation while dissecting the decisions I might make. It was a lovely environment and the whole experience left me inspired. I made a lot of connections too, and hope some of these really exciting poets will feature at future things I do