Fancy a little cerebral stimulation in between catching your favourite bands in action at Green Man 2011? Take it as read!

Poet of the people Simon Armitage, Green Man legend James Yorkston and loveable Welsh rogue Howard Marks head a packed programme of thought-provoking prose and poetry in the Brecon Beacons from August 19th -21st.

Green Man has called on a learned library of literary free spirits with a little something for everyone as he unveils his best ever Literature Tent line-up for summer 2011!

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Are we sitting comfortably? Then we’ll begin… Simon Armitage is one of Britain's greatest - and most accessible - contemporary poets. A frequent guest on BBC 6Music, he has also amassed a considerable body of fiction and non-fiction including the autobiographical Gig – a funny and often moving love letter to his lifelong love of indie music.

Howard Marks has seen his career catapult from audacious convicted cannabis smuggler to a cult icon of the spoken word. Last year his bestselling autobiography Mr Nice was turned into a hit film, while 2011 has seen the publication of the thriller Sympathy For The Devil, his first work of fiction.

James Yorkston played at the first-ever Green Man in 2003. He returns to our ninth to read from his acclaimed memoir It's Lovely To Be Here: The Touring Diaries Of A Scottish Gent – a gentle mix of deadpan humour, wide-eyed wonder and reflections on the absurdity of playing music for a living.

ALSO FEATURING…* The legendary and now traditional MOJO Magazine interview!* Fast Show star Simon Day reads from his autobiography Comedy And Error!* Rock biographer Clinton Heylin on Dylan, punk, Orson Welles and bootlegs!* Swansea’s Joe Dunthorne, author of Submarine – now one 2011’s best films!

PLUS much, much more including the inside track on Bob Marley & The Wailers, groundbreaking Welsh-language theatre, the man who wrote the book that inspired cult horror film The Wicker Man and some very special guests from around the festival!

Grab a cider, pull up a pew and let the brain take the strain with a little light holiday reading at Green Man 2011 – there’s more going on than just the music!
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