Paul Cookson

Paul has been to every festival since 1977 and performed at every festival since 1978. Curator of The Twist and Family Twist for over twenty years, Greenbelt has very much been an artistic home. When lockdown began he started writing and sharing a poem every day on social media. This turned into four books and then The Man Who Launched A Thousand Poems Volumes 1 & 2. It is from these collections that Paul will draw on for this performance. Funny, thoughtful, poignant, pithy, political, irreverent and irrelevant. If Paul was Snow White these would be his seven companions.

In addition, Paul has just released a double album “I’ll Be Bernie, You Be Elton” – a songwriting project collaborating with members of Slade, The Housemartins, The Wonder Stuff, The Christians plus a host of much-loved past Greenbelt performers like Sam Hill, Simon Law, Jenny Lockyer, The Famous Potatoes and Helen Turner.

Oh, and he’s sold over a million of his children’s books.