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Swindon sets out to prove it’s the Poetry Capital of the World (www.bit.ly/poetrycapital)
at the town’s first Festival of Poetry from Thursday 4 October to Tuesday 9 October

Thursday 4th October Sunday 7th October
11am: Poetry Aloud with Hilda Sheehan. Poetry Space. Free 10.30am to 4.30pm: Poetry of Things – an all-day
1pm: BlueGate Poets reading from their 2012 Anthology. Poetry Space. workshop with Robert vas Dias. Richard Jefferies
Free Museum. £25 (£20)
3pm: Poetry at Sasco’s Cafe. Free 11am: Poems & Pictures with Bardwell O’Neill.
Poetry Space. Free
7pm: Artswords Open Mic with poems and music. Poetry Space. £5 (£4)
1pm: Poetry from the Community Poetry Space. Jo Bell at Mabel’s
Friday 5th October Free House Party
11am: Psychogeography with Michael Scott. Poetry Space. Free 7.30pm: Sound & Fury – live poems & music. 12 Bar, £5 (£4)
1pm: Sestina Workshop with Bethany Pope. Poetry Space. Free Monday 8th October
7pm: Pam Ayres in conversation. The Platform. £8 (£7) 11am: Crying Wolf with Cristina Newton Poetry Space. Free
Saturday 6th October 1pm: JETset – with close encounters of the poetic kind. Poetry Space. Free
11am: Alfred Williams – a hundred years on. Poetry Space. Free 7pm: Annie Freud & Tamar Yoselloff – two poets. Poetry Space. £6 (£5)
2pm: Vintage Bus Tour – the joy of Swin-
don, with Mabel Watson & Barry Dicks. From Tuesday 9th October
Bay 1, Swindon Bus Station. £10 11am: Poetry & Life with Matt Holland. Poetry Space. Free
11am to 4pm: Apple Day – fruity, juicy, joyful 1pm: Memory & Poetry with Janice Booth. Poetry Space. Free
poems. Lower Shaw Farm. Free 7.30pm: Being Human – Festival Finale! Arts Centre £8 (£7)
7.30pm: Mabel’s House Party – odes to
joy! No 9 Gallery, Artsite. £7 Festival venues Poetry Space, Central Library,
12 Bar, 179 Westcott Place, Regent Circus. 01793 466454
Siddhartha Bose at the Open Mic on 4 October
Swindon. 01793 466454 Richard Jefferies Museum,
Arts Centre, Devizes Road, Marlborough Road, Coate.
Swindon. 01793 614837 01793 466454
Lower Shaw Farm, Shaw, Sasco’s Cafe, 37 The Arcade,
West Swindon. 01793 771080 Brunel Shopping Centre.
No 9 Gallery, Artsite, 01793 845259
Theatre Square, Swindon. Swindon Bus Station.
01793 466454 01793 466454
The Platform, Faringdon Road, Festival programme at
Swindon. 01793 466454 www.swindonfestivalofpoetry.co.uk

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