Pete The Temp

Pete ‘The Temp’ Bearder is a loop station artist, comic, and spoken word poet whose work has been featured on Radio 4, the World Service & Newsnight. He is a former UK National Poetry Slam Champion and has toured with rave monsters Slamboree. He’s done a TED talk and British Council tours, and published his own poetry as well as ‘Stage Invasion’, the first serious treatment of Performance Poetry: “a fantastic piece of work” – Michael Rosen. “Required reading for anyone studying or fascinated by the art" - Oxford Brookes University Poetry Centre.

“Poetry’s answer to Mark Thomas” – Chortle.

“Challenging, inspiring, terrifying and amusing” – The Ecologist.

PLUS: Bambi

Bath’s own spoken wordsmith legend. Bambi is a young working-class single mother, and no stranger to estrangement, her work draws on themes from poverty to parenthood; weaving her woes into witty words and morbid merriments. Drawing on her own experiences and the stories of those she has met along the way, Bambi finds her healing in adopting a playfulness in pain, and satirically subjecting the systems, and sufferings, that surround her.