HILARIOUS and surreal poet Roger McGough is rounding off Dorchester Literary Festival this weekend with a performance alongside poetry band LiTTLe MACHiNe.

Some tickets are still available for the well loved poet's show of wit and wordplay.

President of the Poetry Society, CBE and the Freeman of the City of Liverpool, Roger has been one of the UK’s finest wordsmiths since his early days with the Liverpool Poets and The Scaffold, famous for their chart hits such as Lilly The Pink and The Aintree Iron.

He is now a familiar voice on radio through shows such as Radio 4’s Poetry Please and continues to delight live audiences and readers with his mix of humour, melancholy and menace.

Roger will perform with the ‘must have’ act at UK Literary Festivals, LiTTLe MACHiNe.

Drawing on 3,000 years of poetry – Sappho, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Blake, Byron, Eliot, Larkin et al – they set classic poems to music and perform them with energy, passion and humour. Former Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy called them “…the most brilliant music and poetry band in the world.”

*Roger McGough + LiTTLe MACHiNe is at the Corn Exchange at 7pm. Doors open at 6.30pm.

To book go to dorchesterarts.org.uk, visit the Corn Exchange Box Office or call 01305 266926.