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Your support makes all the difference.Tony Harrison, still smashing the looms of owned language, discusses the poetry he has written for the screen as well as reading two new poems. After all the festivals, a lone voice hurling glottals against the highest - a fitting finish to the UK Year of Literature. 7.30pm tonight, Ty Llen, Swansea (01792 652211) pounds 4
PJ O'Rourke, self-styled humourist and controversialist, likes making enemies. Unsurprisingly, his middle-aged, right-wing polemics frequently bring him into conflict with his younger, easier-going self. Observe the battle from afar by reading his new collected writings (Age and Guile, Beat Youth, Innocence and a Bad Haircut) or enter the fray as the man arrives in Manchester on the run from Clinton's America. Be warned: last year, hecklers were dealt with satirically. 7pm tonight, Waterstone's Deansgate, Manchester (0161-832 1992) pounds 2
Written for his sons before he established his name as a dramatist, Oscar Wilde's fairy tales get a well-deserved outing with the help of Anton Lesser, Sian Phillips and Simon Russell Beale. 6pm Mon, Olivier, London SE1 (0171-928 2252) pounds 3.50
DOMINIC CAVENDISH
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