The Glastonbury festival website's poet in residence, Rob Auton, will be appearing on the Poetry&Words stage at the festival today, in a line-up that also includes Michael Rosen, Jess Green, Raymond Antrobus, Helen Gregory and Attila the Stockbroker. Auton, who will be reappearing at the Edinburgh Fringe this year with a new show, The Face Show, has already written a number of poems about the festival on his blog, including references to lightning, rain, a fantasy about introducing Metallica, ‘He Is With Us’, a tribute to the late Tony Benn, and ‘Block 9 Summer Wine’, which describes the festival as “the wildest of animals too magical to tame”. Paula Varjack and Dreadlockalien are the comperes at Poetry&Words, where there will be a slam to round things off this evening as well. 

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