About the Author

Paul Cookson is Poet-in-Residence for the National Football Museum and Everton in the Community, Writer-in-Residence for Sing Together, a National Reading Hero award winner and Poet Laureate for Slade! He has worked as a poet for over three decades, performing in schools and libraries, and at literature festivals and events across the world.

Reviews

Praise for volumes 1, 2 & 3: "Every day should have a Paul Cookson moment - keep him by your bedside for emergencies." - Simon Mayo, broadcaster & author; "Paul Cookson is on the ball with poetry and life in the here and now. These trying times need poets to help us find a compass. This book is a must." - Michael Rosen, poet & author; "A book that future historians will want to read; it will tell them what it was like to live in turbulent times through a poet's eye. If journalism is the first draft of history, then here is the second: life shaped, structured, described, annotated." - Ian McMillan, poet & broadcaster; "Paul manages to season his cogent observations of COVID-19 with a dash of humour that makes you want to dip in again and again." - Valerie Bloom MBE, poet & writer; "Witty and wise, astute and acerbic." - Tony Walsh AKA Longfella, poet; "This book takes you on a corollacoaster of emotions, but don't worry, with Paul you are in safe and well-washed hands." - Henry Normal, poet, writer, TV & film producer; "When we look back at 2020/21 and think what was all that about? his work will help us to remember and to see how far we've come." - Rev. Kate Bottley, priest & broadcaster; "A sublime collection of instinctive and honest poems that will serve as a poignant and definitive record of a challenging, turbulent year." - Badly Drawn Boy, singer-songwriter