22 pillars was a spoken word performance event that took as its theme a poetic divination of place and its possibilities. It was a site-responsive work created for the Fremantle Biennale 2017. The project engaged twenty-two poets, comprising a mixed cohort of emerging and established writers. Each poet explored and revealed an archetype of Fremantle giving voice to the human and non-human world, seeking to draw the audience into a profound imagination of place and its innate possibilities.