Romantics, Mystics & Revolutionaries

Witness the birth of a movement that enchanted an era of human history.A storytelling stage show fusing music, comedy, and ecstatic poetry with a live performance-lecture on William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, two poet-revolutionaries.Together they unfold a spellbinding history of riot, state repression, and psychedelic experimentation - one that still speaks to our age of upheaval.Pete 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.Fresh, empowering and funShambala FestivalChallenging, inspiring and amusingThe Ecologist