Poetry & Pudding Club!
This year for the first time we are launching our Poetry & Pudding Club in partnership with Beardy Baker!
As the sun begins to sets on Canterbury’s stunning Secret Gardens, audiences will be treated to a very scrumptious evening poetry & pudding.
About Beardy Baker
Beardy Baker is a local, family run cake baking business. Set up in the heart of historic Canterbury, catering for local cafes, restaurants and residents alike, the brains behind the business is the bearded baker himself, Aaron.
Armed with oodles of experience as both head chef and baker in high quality local eateries for 10 years - The Abode and Mrs Jones’ Kitchen to name a few – Aaron, supported by his young family, decided to take the risk and become the Beardy Baker.
Working from his tiny kitchen at home, Aaron is usually found elbow deep in flour and icing sugar, surrounded by the flavours and colours of his cakey creations. His experienced team of taste testers – his wife and small children – are happily close at hand to make sure he’s keeping up to standard.
Famous for his jiffy traybake and the chocolate nemesis, Beardy Baker is able to bake the cake of your dreams with only the most local and authentic ingredients found in his store cupboard. Baked to order, these cakes do not disappoint and are quickly becoming the talk of the town. Local clients already include The Pound, The Beaney, The Curzon Cinema, and Waterstones.
So, as you can see our Poetry & Pudding Club will be a series of events we very much doubt you’ll be able to resist! And, what’s more, when you fall in love with the puddings you can even order them for your own events - all cakes are home baked and can be delivered within the Canterbury area.
Poetry & Pudding Club Events at Wise Words
Tuesday 3rd May | 8pm - 9:30pm | Featuring Festival Headliner Patience Agbabi
Patience Agbabi was born in London to parents from Nigeria and grew up in Wales One of the UK’s foremost poets, she studied English Language and Literature at Pembroke College, Oxford University, and is a former Poet Laureate of Canterbury. Her writing and performance has been featured on radio and TV worldwide. In 2015, she was a recipient of The Cholmondeley Award this year and she was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Prize for New Work in Poetry.
Tickets: £10 & you can buy your pudding at the event (cash only please)
Wednesday 4th May | 8:30pm - 9:30pm | Canterbury Laureate John Siddique
The urge of the heart is always to come home again, not realising it has always been home. Join our laureate John Siddique, whose writing glows with love, gentle humour, and astonishing precision, for this reading of his work which will journey these exteriors and interiors.
The Spectator calls John ‘a stellar British poet,’ and novelist Bina Shah says he is ‘One of the greatest poets of our generation.’
Tickets £5 & you can buy your pudding at the event (cash only please)
Thursday 5th May | 8:30pm - 10pm | To Helen Back | A Poetry Show
Helen Seymour goes for a wander around a hospital and discovers things aren’t quite as they seem. This surreal debut involves a badger. Please come or else Helen will be sad.
Tickets £5 & you can buy your pudding at the event (cash only please)