season finale Een programma begint… #2
Perdu’s season finale will be celebrated in style with three fantastic poets and an open mic, with an end-of-season party with DJs and signature cocktails until late at night.
Please note: You can buy separate tickets for the Avond and the party. But if you would like to go to both, you can buy a combination ticket for the same price as an Avond ticket, which will also give you access to the party. In other words: for those attending our Avond, the party is free!
The Avond
from 20:00 (doors open 19:30) until 22:00
Michael Tedja will read from his latest collection Lift (IJzer, Utrecht, 2025), which was published just under three months ago, among others. Last year, Nele Buyst published her second collection CORPS, poreus (het balanseer, Gent, 2024), which was nominated for the Grote Poëzieprijs 2025. We hope that Dean Bowen will give us a taster of his highly anticipated second collection Masc:r (after Bokman, Uitgeverij Jurgen Maas 2018) which will be published by Pluim in January.
After their performances, we will open up the stage for members of the audience. Everyone, from widely celebrated to unpublished poets, can apply to perform on the evening itself, preferably with a work that has not been read on stage before.
Tickets: student €10; regular €12,50. No livestream.
The party
from 22:30
After the Open Mic, the seats will be moved out of the way and the party begins. DJ line-up: MEETSYSTEEM, CHINNAMASTA, SLIMFIT, POLYMITA. There will be an open bar with signature cocktails (!) and the bookshop will be open until deep into the night. Close off this season with Perdu, in company of inspiring poetry and perhaps bring your own work to life too.
Tickets: €4,50 for everyone. Entry included with combination tickets for Avond+party (€10 total for students; €12,50 for everyone else).
Bios
Michael Tedja (Rotterdam, 1971) is a poet, writer and visual artist. Tedja studied at the Sandberg Institute and Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. So far, he has written six novels and six poetry collections, and is the laureate for the Sybren Polet-prize and the Jana Beranová-prize; both for his entire body of work. In 2021, he was a jury member for the Jana Beranová-prize and the C. Buddingh-prize. In 2020, he was on the jury for the P.C. Hooft-prize for poetry, and in 2024 for the Grote Poëzieprijs.
Dean Bowen (1984) is a poet, performer and programme maker. Bowen won the first Van Dale SPOKEN Award in the poetry category and his debut Bokman was nominated for the C. Buddingh-Prijs. The Italian translation of Bokman was published in 2021. In 2020 his chapbook Ik vond geen spoken in Achtmaal was published, which is an intimate search for what remains of a person after they have died.
Dean Bowen published, among others, on online platforms Samplekanon and Hard//Hoofd, and in the magazines nY, Tirade, Revisor and de Gids. This powerful performance makes him a desireable guest at various platforms for performance poetry, in the Netherlands and beyond. His performances have brought him to South-Africa, the US, Slovakia, Italy and Austria. From 2019 to 2020 he was the poet laureate of Rotterdam. He teaches performance literature and poetry at the ArtEZ creative writing department, and developed the theatre show Poetic Resistance in collaboration with Willie Darktrousers, Martin Rombouts and Maxime Garcia Diaz.
Nele Buyst writes poems and essays. Texts were published in, nY, DIG, Deus ex Machina and rekto:verso, among others. Her second collection CORPS, poreus was published in 2024 by het balanseer and was shortlisted for the Grote Poëzieprijs. She is a recearcher at the Centre for Ethics at the University of Antwerp.
Perdu’s season finale will be celebrated in style with three fantastic poets and an open mic, with an end-of-season party with DJs and signature cocktails until late at night.
Please note: You can buy separate tickets for the Avond and the party. But if you would like to go to both, you can buy a combination ticket for the same price as an Avond ticket, which will also give you access to the party. In other words: for those attending our Avond, the party is free!
The Avond
from 20:00 (doors open 19:30) until 22:00
Michael Tedja will read from his latest collection Lift (IJzer, Utrecht, 2025), which was published just under three months ago, among others. Last year, Nele Buyst published her second collection CORPS, poreus (het balanseer, Gent, 2024), which was nominated for the Grote Poëzieprijs 2025. We hope that Dean Bowen will give us a taster of his highly anticipated second collection Masc:r (after Bokman, Uitgeverij Jurgen Maas 2018) which will be published by Pluim in January.
After their performances, we will open up the stage for members of the audience. Everyone, from widely celebrated to unpublished poets, can apply to perform on the evening itself, preferably with a work that has not been read on stage before.
Tickets: student €10; regular €12,50. No livestream.
The party
from 22:30
After the Open Mic, the seats will be moved out of the way and the party begins. DJ line-up: MEETSYSTEEM, CHINNAMASTA, SLIMFIT, POLYMITA. There will be an open bar with signature cocktails (!) and the bookshop will be open until deep into the night. Close off this season with Perdu, in company of inspiring poetry and perhaps bring your own work to life too.
Tickets: €4,50 for everyone. Entry included with combination tickets for Avond+party (€10 total for students; €12,50 for everyone else).
Bios
Michael Tedja (Rotterdam, 1971) is a poet, writer and visual artist. Tedja studied at the Sandberg Institute and Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. So far, he has written six novels and six poetry collections, and is the laureate for the Sybren Polet-prize and the Jana Beranová-prize; both for his entire body of work. In 2021, he was a jury member for the Jana Beranová-prize and the C. Buddingh-prize. In 2020, he was on the jury for the P.C. Hooft-prize for poetry, and in 2024 for the Grote Poëzieprijs.
Dean Bowen (1984) is a poet, performer and programme maker. Bowen won the first Van Dale SPOKEN Award in the poetry category and his debut Bokman was nominated for the C. Buddingh-Prijs. The Italian translation of Bokman was published in 2021. In 2020 his chapbook Ik vond geen spoken in Achtmaal was published, which is an intimate search for what remains of a person after they have died.
Dean Bowen published, among others, on online platforms Samplekanon and Hard//Hoofd, and in the magazines nY, Tirade, Revisor and de Gids. This powerful performance makes him a desireable guest at various platforms for performance poetry, in the Netherlands and beyond. His performances have brought him to South-Africa, the US, Slovakia, Italy and Austria. From 2019 to 2020 he was the poet laureate of Rotterdam. He teaches performance literature and poetry at the ArtEZ creative writing department, and developed the theatre show Poetic Resistance in collaboration with Willie Darktrousers, Martin Rombouts and Maxime Garcia Diaz.
Nele Buyst writes poems and essays. Texts were published in, nY, DIG, Deus ex Machina and rekto:verso, among others. Her second collection CORPS, poreus was published in 2024 by het balanseer and was shortlisted for the Grote Poëzieprijs. She is a recearcher at the Centre for Ethics at the University of Antwerp.
