4Talent award winner Luke Wright might just be the hardest working man in poetry. Since 2006 he’s launched his own curve-ball bid to become Poet Laureate, programmed and hosted Latitude’s poetry arena (the largest poetry event in Europe) and has become the newest poet-in-residence on BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live. In 2009 he took contemporary poetry onto primetime TV, writing all the poetry for Channel 4’s The Seven Ages of Love, a 30 minute documentary that gained ‘pick of the day’ in 8 national publications and was broadcast to over a million people.
He has four solo poetry stage shows: Poet Laureate, Poet & Man, A Poet’s Work Is Never Done, and his current one - The Petty Concerns of Luke Wright. He is currently developing a fifth - Cynical Ballads.
His first book, Who Writes This Crap?, co-written with Joel Stickley, was published by Penguin in 2007. A live show based on the book enjoyed a sell-out run at Edinburgh 2008.
His debut pamphlet was published by Nasty Little Press in 2009. You can buy it here.
“The best young performance poet around.” The Observer
“Visceral, poignant and riotously funny.” The Scotsman
“Performance poetry’s key revivalist.” Metro
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All credits - Martin Figura. Except Ink shot - Dave Guttridge
