For
more comprehensive information on Luke please visit: www.lukewright.co.uk
Biography
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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