Martin Newell, John Cooper Clarke, Ross Sutherland, Joel Stickley, Paul Macjoyce, Yanny Mac, Chris Hicks, Tim Clare, Joe Dunthorne, John Osborne, Evelyn Waugh, Damon Albarn, Attila The Stockbroker, Stewart Lee, Richard Herring, Eddie Izzard, Russel Brand
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.
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 spoken word album - The Rise and Fall of Luke Wright, Esq - is available to order online here. A pamphlet is forthcoming from Egg Box Summer 2009.
Luke's new show is called The Petty Concerns of Luke Wright, and it debuts at The 2009 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
"The best young performance poet around." The Observer
"Visceral, poignant and riotously funny." The Scotsman
"Performance poetry's key revivalist." Metro
How's it going? If you are in London ever you totally think about submitting yourself for Speech Motion. Bit of performance poetry makes for a good night =]
The poetry special on Newsnight was wonderfullll btw! Lots of different perspectives on poetry today. I believe that poetry should always be discovered. I wasn't the biggest fan until I saw everything going on at the Latitude poetry tent so thank you :] x
Hello, 'Ruby and her whorses' told me that you asked her to play Lattitude, and I know this is a long shot but I would reeally love to play. I'm sure you have everyone you need, but it never hurt to ask! haha.
Oh your poems are so lovely but I bet you here this aaall the time - when you're not standing in for carol ann duffy (poet laureate ooh la la) on C4 news that is. :D
How're things? I have a new song up, if you want to 'give it a spin'. I'm not sure if that makes sense, I think it might only apply to cars. You get the idea.
