Arts
Poet Daniel Cockrill invites Poet, Spoken Word Artist, Activist and Musician Peter Bearder aka Pete The Temp round his house for a chat. During this chat they explore the visceral space between fact and fiction to reveal certain truths that can’t necessarily be explained by these other fields. They also attempt to answer the Poet Waffle Big Question: What is the purpose of Art? Topics covered include: Adopting, Rejecting, Transcending and Reinventing Labels, The Post Spoken Word Era, The Alternative Cabaret Scene, Being a Street Musician, Being a One Man Band, Hammer & Tongue, Engaging an Audience, Artistic Subcultures, Variety as Audience and Artist, How To Put People Off Their Own Opinions, Is There Too Much Poetry In Spoken Word?, Reviewing and Critiquing Ourselves, Rachel Pantechnicon, John Hegley, Thick Richard, Katie Ailes, Hannah Silva, Lucy English, Jack McGowan, Tim Wells, Russell Thompson, Aleister Crowley, The Magic and Telepathy of Words & Language, The Innovation, Imagination and Conception of Words, The Architecture of Language, The Culture of the Individual and his latest book - Stage Invasion: Poetry & The Spoken Word Renaissance.