A talk part of the program Breaking Patterns curated by Etienne Berbard, myself and artist Basim Magdy enter in conversation reflecting on the possibilities of visual poetry obtained by juxtaposing diverse contexts into a fictional narrative. Revisiting Magdy's research and his recent film M.A.G.N.E.T, in which he developed a way to combine poetry, image and sound introduced the challenge they planned for the participants: designing fictional narratives using seemingly disparate keywords – magnetic poetry. These narratives could be presented as text, poetry, series of images or any unusual medium or format the participant groups agreed upon. You will be especially able to discover an example of one of these group creations from the minute 48:30 onwards. A group of four participants, meeting for the first time, managed in thirty minutes to conceive a performance with live music, dance and poetry.