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A poet who’d rather be a footballer will be visiting Denbigh and Llangollen next week to celebrate the National Year of Reading.
Paul Cookson will be giving a performance for children and families at Denbigh Library on Wednesday, July 23 at 11.00am and then going on to give a performance at Llangollen Town Hall at 3.00pm as part of the Llangollen Fringe Festival.
His performances are always fun, exciting, loud ( and sometimes cheeky). Audience participation is non negotiable and beware – he has a ukulele and he’s prepared to use it!
When Paul was at school, he would have rather been a footballer than anything else – especially if it meant playing for Everton! A second choice would have been to play rock and roll guitar for a band like Slade. Instead, he wrote poems and became a poet.
Since 1989 he has worked as poet, performing thousands of shows at thousands of schools and publishing over forty collections of children’s poetry including The Works, Pants On Fire and Give Us A Goal.
He is now the Poet In Residence at the National Football Museum and Poet Laureate for Slade and his work has appeared regularly on national radio and television.

The events will be promoting Team Read, this year’s Summer Reading Challenge for children in local libraries. Last year over 3,000 children in Denbighshire took part.