WATCH Poet Rhael ‘LionHeart’ Cape's Love Letter to the Barbican

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When The Modern House first meets the spoken word artist, Rhael ‘LionHeart’ Cape he is fresh from a residency at the Fallingwater Institute and fizzing with new ideas. It has been 10 years since the 37-year-old gave up his day job to pursue life as a poet. He is now an honorary fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and he hasn’t looked back. Apart from when asked to – which brings us here, to the Barbican, where his work with words began.

We asked Rhael if he’d kept any of these early works, but he is resolutely forward-facing (and not great at filing). On a recce of our location for this film (an apartment on the 24th floor of the Lauderdale Tower) he took himself off into a quiet room and sketched the beginnings of a new piece – a poem commissioned exclusively for The Modern House. In a few effortless, effervescent lines, Rhael conjures the sense of possibility that propels us on the hunt for a new home.

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