Letter from Anne Bennett

3:18pm Thursday 15th May 2008

I AM surprised and saddened that you have chosen to publish yet another personal attack on Matt Holland and the Swindon Literature Festival organisers by Ross Warren (SA, May 14, Letters Festival makes me sad for town'). It seems particularly insensitive that it was published at a time when Matt and the team are working flat out to deliver yet another wonderful literature festival.

If memory serves, in past correspondence Ross Warren complained that Ray Davis, Esther Rantzen and Eric Clapton should not be invited to the festival, as he did not consider them creators of literature (whatever that may be), and therefore not worthy to speak. Now he complains that they are not part of the line up - it seems there is no pleasing him.

Well Ross Warren does not speak for me. I think the festival this year, as ever, is fantastic, a real treasure which we should all cherish, and I know that many other people share my view, as the numbers attending the festival prove. Matt Holland and his team deserve our gratitude for bringing such a wonderful event to our town each year. They do not deserve Ross Warren's unpleasant and unfounded attacks, and I hope that the Adver will not continue to give space to his personal attacks.

Anne Bennett Swindon

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