Glastonbury are pleased to announce that this year's website Poet in Residence is Longfella, aka Tony Walsh. Tony will be writing poems for the website throughout the Festival weekend, just as Jo Bell did last year.

To kick things off, Tony (who's a Festival regular) has written a terrific poem, entitled 'Why Glastonbury?'. Check it out below (photos and video by Rohan van Twest). Watch Video

As well as his daily poems, Tony will be tweeting from the Festival - you can follow him at @LongfellaPoet. Tony's also hoping to crowd-source a poem which will be posted here on the website and performed at the Festival. To get involved, simply tweet him a Glastonbury memory, completing the sentence "The moment when..." in 8 words or less, using the hashtag #glastopoet.

Tony will be performing on the Poetry&Words stage at 6.30pm on Friday and 12.50pm on Sunday. You can check out more of his work on his website, at longfella.co.uk.