The debut spoken word album from "The best young performance poet around" (The Observer). This 2007 4Talent Award Winner brings twelve of his top poems on CD for the first time. See why Luke Wright has been delighting and challenging all over the UK.

12 MP3 Songs
SPOKEN WORD: Poetry, SPOKEN WORD: Comedy

Show all album songs: The Rise and Fall of Luke Wright, Esq. Songs


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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 Glastonburyâs 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? is published by Hamish Hamilton/Penguin in November 2007. Co-authored with long time collaborator Joel Stickley, Who Writes This Crap? is a compendium 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. Or pre-order it here

Wright also curates and hosts the Latitude Festivalâs 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 Wrightâs 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 opinions, 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.â Metro

âHeâs young, talented and good looking. Naturally, I hate him.â John Cooper Clarke