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.