Satellite Of Love Previous Headliner Pete Bearder is an award-winning spoken word poet, author and comic. His work has been featured on BBC Radio 4, The World Service, and Newsnight. He is a former National Poetry Slam Champion and has performed around the world with organisations like The British Council. Pete recently released his third book ‘Garden of Madness’, described by Tom Hirons as a ‘word-heaven of praise poetry’.
I’ve not had breakfast and the dentist talks of my mortality At least we have suckable items And Brian blessed is my patronus I sat on a train that became a long, metallic fart The hopeless case of progress An aubergine between the legs Bristol’s clear air zone – are you ready? I’m not In my best, loudest football voice I said: Two squatter’s wrongs don’t make a squatter’s rights At least we have pizza Love was bird in my hand and I squeeze – splat! Which was incredibly wonderful But then we all knew turkeys aren’t a just for Christmas, they’re a way of life September rang like a scar, Left upon that creature’s pity A tourist in a resort On the fourth Wednesday of the month Ring ring goes the poet’s phone as he starts to rhyme…
I can’t write in yellow the now infamous village gimp said is that a two litre bottle of Vimto or are you just pleased to see me? Who says romance is dead? Boys night Boys night A smash of cities erupts into asphalt chunks of honesty and raw love
Though the best comedy is about serious issues humankind cannot stand too much seriousness all aboard for jolly fun, don’t make waves or you’ll fall down.
Obsessed by living the dream, I fell in love with base jumping. I love to crunch on apples, I eat noodles in church I’m a Ramen Catholic. My friend’s donkey hasn’t been to the vet in years if you like your cats alive don’t go to Crete. Badger, Badger, Badger, Badger, Badger, Badger Murder she cried, though the Aardvark was unimpressed All the superlatives: great uncles and extreme sporks Bristol fashion sparkly beard is a must I opened my eyes and everything was beautiful The only risk in life is to take no risk at all Fools rush in as winter chills, the silk of milk slid down her throat, scrambled nectar of the dogs
I slide poems under the skirting boards and then arriving shyly at the open mic, I don’t remember how words work.
Emma Purshouse is a poetry slam champion and performs regularly at spoken word nights and festivals far and wide, sometimes using her native Black Country dialect. She was the Poet Laureate for the City of Wolverhampton. Her appearances include, The Cheltenham Literature Festival, Ledbury Poetry Festival, Much Wenlock Poetry Festival, the Edinburgh Fringe, Latitude, and Womad. She has supported the likes of John Hegley, Holly McNish and Carol Ann Duffy.
In 2017 Emma won the ‘Making Waves’ international spoken word competition which was judged by Luke Wright.
Her children’s poetry collection ‘I Once Knew a Poem Who Wore a Hat’ (Fair Acre Press) won the poetry section of the Rubery Book award in 2016. Her most recent poetry publication ‘Close’ (Offa’s Press) was shortlisted for the same award in 2018.
Her debut novel ‘Dogged’ is published by Ignite Books.
She is one third of the poetry collective ‘Poets, Prattlers, and Pandemonialists’ who run spoken word events, workshops, and poetry projects across the Midlands.
Emma’s poem ‘Catherine Eddowes Tin Box as a Key Witness’ came 3rd in the National Poetry Competition in 2021.
“A whirlwind of wit and humour” – Write Out Loud.
Steve Pottinger
Steve Pottinger is part of the ‘Poets, Prattlers, and Pandemonialists’ poetry collective, and has performed his poetry all over the UK, in pubs, clubs, and festivals.
Poet Tom Sastry grew up in Buckinghamshire and has lived in Bristol since 1999. After being chosen by Carol Ann Duffy as one of the 2016 Laureate’s Choice poets, his debut pamphlet Complicity (2016) was a Poetry School Book of the Year and a Poetry Book Society pamphlet choice. Since then, he has published two collections, both with Nine Arches Press: A Man’s House Catches Fire in 2019, which was highly commended in the Forward Prize and shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize, and his new book, You have no normal country to return to, which came out this year. Tom has been described by Hera Lindsay Bird as “a magician of deadpan” and praised by Carol Ann Duffy for how he “navigates the mysterious everyday…making friendships and love affairs new and strange”.
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