Swindon Festival Of Literature : Festival Finale

Festival Finale

With stories, poems, songs, circus theatre, wordplay, music, performers, and pleasure, this promises to be a fitting Finale for the 33rd Swindon Festival of Literature.

The Mother Wolf Club presents Phenomonopoly – a hilarious and surreal game show and part high-brow panto, hosted by the pun-loving Minotaur, and featuring fowl-mouthed punk chicken John Cooper Cluck and dating guru Pink Freud, assisting audience members in the creation of the most unhinged fridge-magnet poem imaginable, in an attempt to save language from devolving into emoji soup. Wacky, weird, and wonderful!

Zimbabwean multi-instrumentalist Tawanda Mapanada brings a blend of marimba, saxophone, vocals, and audience participation to proceedings.

Writer, poet, enemy of all that’s difficult and upsetting, and Festival favourite Matt Harvey has a way with words, which has taken him from Totnes to Wimbledon via Radio 4, the Edinburgh Festival, and the Work section of The Guardian. The first of his many poetry anthologies was The Hole in the Sum of my Parts, whose twentieth anniversary he celebrated by staring into the abyss of his own soul, holding the gaze of what looked back at him and saying, ‘Yep, that’s me…’

Homegrown Jacob Hi-Ho and circus friends will bring the Festival Finale to a fitting close with unpredictable performance and props, including the well-travelled and weathered watering can!