Beautiful Audience

Posted on June 28, 2011 by GlastonburyFestivalPoetry

Sunburn, mud and glitter – the beautiful Poetry & Words audience 🙂

Beautiful photos of beautiful people by beautiful Bohdan Piasecki.

Michael Eavis pops in to the slam …

Posted on June 26, 2011 by GlastonburyFestivalPoetry

Matt Harvey

Posted on June 26, 2011 by GlastonburyFestivalPoetry

This blogger hearts Matt Harvey … always charming and funny.

Here are his commissioned love poems to the potato.

Bohdon Piasecki

Posted on June 26, 2011 by GlastonburyFestivalPoetry

Longfella

Posted on June 26, 2011 by GlastonburyFestivalPoetry

Glastonbury Festival’s Official Poet in Residence, Longfella, has been living it large this weekend. His appearance on BBC6 Music with Cerys Matthews can be heard again for a few days here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0125pcn/Glastonbury_2011_Shaun_Keaveny_and_Cerys_Matthews_at_Glastonbury/ Tony aka Longfella’s bit is in the last 10 minutes of the show with his (written on the day) poetic tribute to Glasto stalwart, legendary dj and great supporter of poetry, John Peel.

Longfella and Cerys

He too has been doing the rounds of the other stages, tucked away in cafes and bars all over the festival site. Here’s a picture of him with a muddy beer – they paid the poets in cans of beer that had fallen in the mud. For health and safety reasons they couldn’t be sold to the public. Poets love to live on the mudtastic edge 🙂

So having done his stint at Poetry & Words, off he goes to do his poetic duties …

Poeticat

Posted on June 26, 2011 by GlastonburyFestivalPoetry

Poeticat have been working hard all festival, doing gigs all over the place. There are lots of chances for poets to perform at Glasto; even if you don’t get officially booked for a stage there are plenty of venues looking for quality acts. We keep a notice board to let poets know where gigs are offered and P&W poets often pop over to venues like The Fluffy Rock Cafe (hosted by Denis Just Denis) to strut their stuff.