Eliot’s writing of The Waste Land arose out of a background of global uncertainty (the end of WW1, the Spanish flu pandemic, etc.) and our world today shares a similar sense of uncertainty (the Covid pandemic, climate crisis, Russia’s attack on Ukraine). Writer and journalist, Gavin Esler, discusses the challenges we face today.
A series of conversations with writers and artists across the festival exploring themes from The Waste Land that offer a contemporary resonance such as landscape, mechanisation, gender-fluidity, ecology, pollution, women’s rights, the power of myth and mental health and well-being.
