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Swindon’s second Festival of Poetry
Thursday 3 October to Tuesday 6 October
Thursday 3 October
10am - 11am: Poems Aloud! Hosted by Hilda Sheehan. Central Library • Free Purton Farm Shop &
12.30 – 1.30pm: A Poetry-Packed Lunch with Roddy Lumsden. The Studio, Organic Veg Box Scheme
Arts Centre • £5 (£4) Free delivery
2pm – 3pm: Separate Ways: anthology readings with BlueGate Poets and Veg, fruit, eggs, meat
Tamar Yoseloff. Museum & Art Gallery • Free Butter, milk & more
7pm till late: BlueGate Open Mic – with Pindrop Press poets Cherry Smyth
and Emer Gillespie, plus Jo Hemmant. Lower Shaw Farm • £5 (£3) Shop open Tuesday-Sunday
Church End, Purton
Friday 4 October
10.30am onwards: Poetry Surgeries with Angela France. Railway Carriage, Swindon SN5 4EB
The Platform • Tel 01793 466454 • £15 Tel: 01793 772287
11am – 4pm: Up the Junctions! A metaphorical day trip of poems and places www.purtonhouseorganics.co.uk
along the M4 corridor. The Platform • One event £6.20 or all day for £12.40, come
and go as you please.
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Festival launch on 5 September, from left, Michael Scott, Hilda Sheehan, Matt
Holland, Carla Rigotti, Mark O’Donell Photo: Richard Wintle www.calyxpix.com
Saturday 5 October
11am – 11.30am: Poetry Rhyme Time with Hilda Sheehan. Central Library • Free
10am – 12noon: Vintage Bus Tour: the joys of Swindon, with surprises and
guests along the way. Departs from The Sun Inn, Coate, Swindon, Wiltshire SN3
6AA. Tel 01793 466454 • £10 Make life easier
12.30pm – 1.30pm: A Wood Magic Story Walk, with Hilda Sheehan. Richard
Jefferies Museum, Coate SN3 6AA. Tel (01793) 466561 • Free
4pm – 5pm: Having a cake with you, and Angela Kirby. The Studio, Arts On the move
Centre • £5 (£4) Large range of mobility aids
6pm – 7pm The Son of Shoemaker – exhibition, private view, and reading Mobility scooters
with Linda Black. Landing Gallery, Arts Centre • Free Hire services
7.30pm: Alice Oswald, Cristina Newton and the Battered Moons Poetry Stairlifts
Competition – an evening of poetry, prizes. Arts Centre • £10 (£8)
Sunday 6 October
10am – 12.30pm: Working with Collage – a workshop with Linda Black. The At home
Studio, Arts Centre • £20 Rise and recline
1pm – 2pm: Spiritual Poetry – faith, healing, and inspirational poems furniture
Presented in association with BlueGate Poets. Richard Jefferies Museum • £4 (£3) Adjustable Beds
1.30pm – 3.30pm: Bardwell O’Neill are Game! Broadgreen Community
Centre • £3 per family Footcare
2pm: Byron Beloved – a play that tells the story of England’s most infamous Cosyfeet
poet, his loves, his losses, and his ultimate banishment. Arts Centre • £8 (£7)
Double ticket for Byron Beloved and Considering Kipling • £10 shoes and slippers Free hearing
4pm – 5pm: Considering Kipling – with John Chambers. The Studio, Arts Footcare health check
Centre • £5 (£4) appointments
7.30pm: Festival Finale – a last night of delights, including poems to make you Ellendune Shopping Centre, WROUGHTON, SN4 9LN
think, feel, laugh, and drink, and music to match. Kim Moore, Claire Trévien, Elvis
McGonagall, Aidan Sheehan, The Very Grimm Brothers. Arts Centre • £10 (£8) 01793 815083
www.swindonfestivalofpoetry.co.uk for details or mail: Next to Tesco – Free level parking
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