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 …
Poetry&Words at Glastonbury Festival 