About Us Who We Are Poet in the City brings poetry to life beyond books, producing classic and contemporary poetry performances taking on major ideas, issues and people. We showcase biopics, use poetry to animate moments of cultural and social change, and create dramatic poetry experiences in major arts venues and unusual spaces. Audiences are at the heart of Poet in the City; we work with a thriving community of volunteers who are involved in all aspects of our work, deliver creative audience participation programmes and lead a producers scheme for 16-25 year olds to train the next generation of poetry producers. Last year alone: 8000 live audience members attended 42 events in 12 venues. We worked with 150 artists and commissioned 4 new works of poetry. We collaborated with 26 different partners on events and projects. We developed 32 young people to become the poetry producers of the future. We programmed innovative new work for 300 school children. We continued to work with our family of volunteers to develop and inform our work.