Luke Wright

Luke Wright's Cynical Ballads

Wonderful slices of fractured Britain

8 Aug 2011

As part of ‘poetry boyband’ Aisle 16, Luke Wright helped to bring spoken verse to a new generation. In his previous solo shows, he has had a dig at Andrew Motion for having the temerity to be Poet Laureate when clearly Luke was the right man for the job…

Comedy picks for the Edinburgh Fringe 2011

20 Jul 2011

David O’Doherty Two shows this year from the beloved man of lo-fi musical comedy with the high-laugh quotient. His usual brilliant sit-down/stand-up fare, David O’Doherty is Looking Up, is augmented by his debut on the one-man comic play scene. Rory…

Luke Wright

His concerns may be petty but the poetry is not

16 Aug 2009

You’ve got to hand it to Luke Wright. Since his first solo Fringe show in 2006, he’s come back to Edinburgh every year with a new collection of withering poems, each of which dissects the highs and lows of his chosen profession with equal menace and…

Bookslam

Ripping up the stuffy literary world

14 Aug 2008

‘People think live readings are supposed to be 20-minute monotones about the “quality of light on the mountains” and unfortunately they often are,’ says Alan Bissett, master of ceremonies for a stagefull of Dan Rhodes (pictured), Patience Agbabi and…

Who Writes This Crap?

14 Aug 2008

Poets Luke Wright and Joel Stickley are in love with the English language; which is why they are so apoplectically enraged by its daily misuse. By rewriting all the ironic advertising, spam emails and glossy mag headlines read in one day, they find…

Luke Wright

16 Aug 2007

Self-confessed ‘girly-boy’ Wright has bags of youthful energy, and jotters full of poems he's written. His Freud and de Beauvoir quotes used to be handy for impressing girls; now he throws them in with Arctic Monkeys lyrics, tales of a botched ‘Whoring…

Rebel ink

1 Aug 2007

With his first book due out and the premier league of poets joining him at the Fringe, Luke Wright tells Brian Donaldson that the key to more success is having a rapport