GIGS

14 May
Luke Wright, Poet & Man
The Brindley | High Street | Runcorn | Chesire | WA7 1BG
BO: 0151 907 8360 | TBC | £TBC

22 May
Luke Wright, Poet & Man
Norden Farm Centre for the Arts | Altwood Road | Maidenhead | SL6 4PF
BO: 01628 788997 | TBC | £TBC

28 May
Apples & Snakes SOHO
The Soho Theatre
London
Details TBC

29 May
Sabotage (supporting Stewart Lee)
The GE Hotel | Liverpool Street | London
TBC | TBC

3 June
Who Writes This Crap? - Full Preview
Pulse Festival | Wolsey Studio | Ipswich | 9pm

10 June
Luke Wright, Poet & Man
The Brewhouse Taunton | Coal Orchard | Taunton | TA1 1JL;
Box Office: 01823 283244 | TBC | TBC

15 June
Luke Wright, Poet & Man
The Devizes Festival | Devizes | Wiltshire
(details TBC)

19 June
HOMEWORK
Ross, Tim & Joe present It Looks Like You're Writing a Letter Their Ouilp inspred hour of uni-vocalisms, poems using only one vowel. Chicks and I are supporting.
The Horse & Groom | 26 Curtain Road | Shoreditch | 7.30pm | £3

1 July
Luke Wright, Poet & Man
The Little Theatre | Holme Street | Hebden Bridge | West Yorkshire | HX7 6EE
BO: 01422 843907 | TBC | £TBC

5 July
Glastonwick Beer Festival
Church Farm, Coombes, West SussexBN15 ORS
details TBC

7 July
Present Tense
This is run by my good friends at the nabokov. A bunch of artists (poets, playwrights, directors) get together on a Sunday go through the news that week, pick the best story and go away and write about it. The following week they present their stuff to an audience. Sounds like hard work!
The Junction | Cambridge | 7pm

12 July
The Big Day Out Festival

13 July
Luke Wright, Poet & Man
The Ledbury Poetry Festival

17-20 July
Latitude
The biggest weekend of the year, I rule with an jelly, poetic fist over my tent at the Latitude Festival. Check www.latitudefestival.co.uk

24 July
HOMEWORK
This month Joel and I preview our Edinburgh show - Who Writes This Crap?
The Horse & Groom | 26 Curtain Road | Shoreditch | 7.30pm | £3

28 July
Who Writes This Crap?
2 Edinburgh previews for a tenner. Oh yes!
The Arcola Theatre | Arcola Street | Dalston | London | 8pm | £10

31 July - 24 August (not 12)
W ho Writes This Crap?
All the rubbish you read in a day rewritten. Adverts, newspapers, small print, spam – bad writing is everywhere. Let's fight back. Starring Aisle16's Luke Wright & Joel Stickley. "An inspired piece of parody" Guardian. "Superb" Independent.
The Iron Belly | The Underbelly | Cowgate | Edinburgh
16.55 | £10.50 - £8 | Previews £6 | Box Office: 0870 745 3083

10-16 August
A Poet's Work is Never Done
“The best young performance poet around" (Observer) “with the attributes of any impressive stand-up” (Time Out) presents ”visceral, poignant and riotously funny verse" (Scotsman). “Performance poetry's key revivalist” (Metro). ***** Herald, Threeweeks. **** Scotsman, List, Chortle.
Zoo Venues | Southside | Nicholson Street | Edinburgh
9pm | £7 / £5 conc.

NEWS

01 May - I will be on Radio 4's Saturday Live at 9am on Staurday 3 May. I will be reading two topical poems penned on the day. Eek!

10 April - I am part of the collective running a new literary cabaret called HOMEWORK. We have a five show season planned at The Horse & Groom in Shoreditch. See our MySpace or our E-Flyer.

09 April - I am to host and perform in a new radio pilot for Hattrick. The show is provisionally called Trashcan. We have recorded a live show and are currently in post-production. More info here

24 March - I will be taking a new show of poems to Edinburgh. A Poet's Work Is Never Done will play The Zoo Venues 10-16 August at 9pm.

20 December - Joel Stickley and I have been accepted on to the prodigious East to Edinburgh scheme for 2008. We will be taking to the Fringe a stage show based on our book Who Writes This Crap?

22 November - First lot of 2008 Poet & Man tour dates posted on gigs page.

Buy Luke's poetry record on CD. The Rise and Fall of Luke Wright, Esq features 12 of Luke's best poems, all for £6. Buy it here.

Buy Who Writes This Crap? By Joel Stickley & Luke Wright from Amazon.

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