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Writers’ Day at Salisbury Literary Festival
As we approach the second run of literature festivals, I’m thinking of the different kinds of festival within easy travel of Marlborough. Swindon (okay, it’s in May), focuses on ideas and has a lot of intellectual non-fiction catering to a city-sized town (and county) missing undergraduate education. Cheltenham (October) has grown into a mega book…
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Poetry Swindon Festival
So today I was in a cow onesie outside Swindon town centre M&S reading The Cow by Roald Dahl, with a bunch of other onesie animals. (The other option was to read An Ode to Autumn by Keates with added moos). The point of this stunt – and believe it or not this was the…