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 one of the poets-in-residence on BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live.
He has four solo poetry stage shows: Poet Laureate, Poet & Man, A Poet’s Work Is Never Done, and The Petty Concerns of Luke Wright. He is currently developing a fifth - Cynical Ballads. All of which played to sold out audiences at The Edinburgh Fringe, got five star reviews and have completed extensive national tours.
He has also started writing poetry for films. 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, it was later nominated for a prestigious Grierson Award.
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. Joel and Luke have also written verse for an animated shorted directed by Jon Dunleavy, - Crash! Bang! Wallow!, the story of a suicidal stuntman, won the National Film Board of Canada short film competition at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.
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
“He must be on some kind of dope.” John Cooper Clarke
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All credits - Martin Figura. Except Ink shot - Dave Guttridge
