Luke Wright's Cynical Ballads
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‘The best young performance poet around’ (Observer) presents eight caustic tales from Broken Britain. Let him lead you through Blighty’s run-down shopping precincts, provincial high streets and airless television studios to introduce a cast of tone-deaf pop wannabes, terrorized single mums and baby-boomers with afflu-AIDS. Between each poem Luke offers a pithy crash course in the history of balladry, from broadsides to Christina Aguilera. Stunning Steadman-esque illustrations accompany each poem courtesy of Sam Ratcliffe. ‘Visceral, poignant and riotously funny’ (The Scotsman). ★★★★★ (Herald, Time Out).
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Luke Wright's Cynical Ballads
8 Aug 2011
Wonderful slices of fractured Britain
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…
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