The public has become precarious. In a post-pandemic world, those foundational moments of collective expression, collective joy, must be reformulated, alchemized into something new and sustainable.

Poetry is so often thought of as a solitary pursuit, one that highlights interiority, but in the face of our rapidly shifting culture, it is crucial to understand how poetry exists in the public sphere, its function, and its power.

Writer/director John Mcilduff has years of experience producing works for the public sphere and will be joining us at Perdu alongside Lottie and Marta of Beetroot Podcast. The three of them will explore poetry in public, helping us to understand how the written word creates a collective experience, and how it can continue to do so.