Luke Wright
Contemporary poet Luke Wright performs the world premiere of his much-anticipated new show Cynical Ballads at this year’s festival. A 4Talent Award winner in 2007, Luke burst into the limelight in 2006 with his show Poet Laureate, which combined a unique blend of comedy and poetry to promote to audiences why he should be considered as an alternative to Britain’s next laureate.
Originally hailing from Essex, Luke has been a performance poet for over ten years. Since 2006 he has toured the country with four different shows, all of which have been performed to critical acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe. His most recent, The Petty Concerns of Luke Wright, received a series of 5-star reviews including The Evening Standard, which said he was “positively life enhancing, as well as hilarious”.
He is the co-founder of poetry collective Aisle 16, and alongside a number of fellow male poets has satirically formed the UK’s only ‘Poetry Boyband’. He is also Radio 4’s poet-in-residence for the show Saturday Live and was involved in the Channel 4 documentary Seven Ages of Love (2009). Away from poetry he has also written a book alongside Joel Stickley, entitled Who Writes this Crap? (2008) which The Independent stated left “no brand of modern toxic text unscorned”.
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“The best young performance poet around.”
The Observer
“Luke Wright’s poems hit their mark with pinpoint precision.”
Time Out
Links:
- A review of Luke Wright’s show Poet Laureate by the Metro
- Luke Wright’s collaboration with Aisle 16 members for Poetry Boyband
- Listen to Luke Wright’s poems for Radio One, ‘Soaps’ and ‘Skins vs Grange Hill’
Video:
Luke reads poem ‘The Ballad of Barlow Burton’:
