POP culture-inspired book and show, Double Bill, edited by poet Andy Jackson, is coming to Swindon next month.

Andy will be appearing as part of the fourth Poetry Swindon Festival, which runs from Thursday, October 1 to Monday, October 5 in venues such as Lower Shaw Farm, the festival base, the Richard Jefferies Museum, The Museum of Computing, Swindon Museum and Art Gallery, the Wilts and Berks Canal, The Cricklade Railway and Artsite Post Modern Gallery.

Double Bill was chosen by Clive James as one of his three books of 2014. It includes poems that have been created by ideas of art, dance and sport in addition to a healthy crop of film and TV-inspired poetry.

Andy will be at the festival’s Double Bill poetry evening on Friday, October 2 from 7pm at the Savernake Street Social Hall in Swindon’s Old Town. Tickets are £7.

The festival is hosted by Hilda Sheehan, and alongside Andy, features Anglo American poet, Robert Vas Dias, the inaugural canal poet laureate, Jo Bell, Forward prize winner, Kei Miller and art specialist, Pascale Petit.

Hilda said: “With relaxed events, the pleasure of food, the pleasure of poetry, we are creating a lovely vibe. We’re only four-years-old. We are becoming more mature or maybe we’re getting sillier.’’ Some of the events may be relaxed but one event will stir up the senses when Jo Bell, Tania Hershman and Luke Kennard go head to head in a poetic dust up, debating whether prose poetry is real poetry.

Running alongside the festival is an art exhibition inspired by poetry at the Post Modern Art Gallery in Theatre Square. Poetry Postcards runs until the end of the month.

For more details of the festival Visit the website http://www.poetryswindon1.blogspot.co.uk/p/news.html for more details.

- Flicky Harrison