Romantics, Mystics & Revolutionaries

The Romantic movement was an act of defiance against industry and the mechanisation of the soul. What do their dreams of renewal offer our age of despair?

This is a true story of riot, anti-slavery, mysticism and psychedelics; told through the lives of two poet renegades - Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth.

Part storytelling stage-show, part performance lecture, Pete unfolds a journey of music, comedy and lyricism in a thrilling collision of scholarship and live entertainment.

Expect reverence, resistance and enchantment from a time of slavery and war.

Pete (the Temp) Bearder is an award-winning spoken word poet, author and comic whose work has been featured on BBC Radio 4, Newsnight and the World Service. He is a former Hammer & Tongue UK Poetry Slam champion and has performed in over fifteen countries with organisations that include The British Council. His last stage show Homer to Hip Hop appeared over sixty times around the UK.

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

“Challenging, inspiring and amusing.” — The Ecologist

“Fresh, empowering and fun.” — Shambala Festival

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