Luke Wright is the true alternative laureate. The leading light of a new wave of stand-up poet taking the noble art by the scruff of the neck and turning it into something that can delight audiences at comedy clubs, indie gigs and literary festivals.

A 2007 4Talent Award winner, Luke is the founder of Aisle16, the host of Glastonbury’s Leftfield stage and has two five star solo Edinburgh shows under his belt. His debut, the multi-media Luke Wright, Poet Laureate took the 2006 Edinburgh Fringe Festival by storm, scooping a clutch of 5 star reviews before completing a 20 date national tour. Follow-up Luke Wright, Poet & Man was an altogether more grown up affair, stripped of any fancy-dan visuals it was a warmer, more reflective show and won it's author new fans, collecting a 'Spirit of the Fringe Award' along the way.

Wright's first book, Who Writes This Crap? was published by Hamish Hamilton/Penguin in November 2007. Co-authored with long time collaborator Joel Stickley, Who Writes This Crap? is a conpendium of everyday texts like mobile bills, cereal packets, newspaper articles and health warnings brutally satirised and presented as the trip through a day in the life of a temp worker in London. Visit www.whowritesthiscrap.com. Order it here

Wright also curates and hosts the Latitude Festival’s Poetry Arena (the largest live poetry event in Europe) as well as taking his finely-tuned events elsewhere such as The Soho Theatre, The Whitechapel, Port Eliot Lit Fest and Luke Wright’s Poetry Party - his own 2 day festival in Edinburgh. He also wrote the script for The technical Hitch, an animated short about Tikuf, the electrical anomaly who's at the heart of all technical malfunction - www.tikuf.com

Press Quotes

"A very good poet indeed." The Guardian

"The best young performance poet around." The Observer

"Wright has wit and opinons, he can craft them into stanzas with rhyme and scan and make you laugh not just at his jokes but at the dexterity he puts together the nuts and bolts of the English language ... His satire works because he also believes in things: justice; honesty; above all the power of the poem." The Scotsman

"Wright has surely got the rhyme and reason to take the art form to previously unchartered heights. This is as well-conceived a comedy show as you will see." The Herald

"A rip roaring raconteur, evoking an almost Larkin-esque sense of commuter belt ennui.” Metro

“He’s young, talented and good looking. Naturally, I hate him.” John Cooper Clarke

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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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