High Performance

This is Luke Wright's first collection, despite his being four Edinburgh shows deep and being one of Radio 4's Saturday Live poets in residence.

From Luke's new imprint Nasty Little Press comes this collection of poems entitled High Performance, and they paint a hilarious picture of the life of a performing poet with energy and gusto.

Live favourites 'A Poet's Work is Never Done' and 'Luke's Got a Joke' get reworked for the page, now existing as written poems in their own right, showing that Wright's relentless energy and acerbic wit translate well to the page. Featuring a cast of characters such as suicidal army colonels on a rant, crooked talent-scouts promising dreams of poetic stardom and sad-eyed Mondeo men, Wright explores the art of performance from the biggest venues to the smallest venue. You're guaranteed at least two laughs a poem and that's high recommendation for work that has until now only existed live. Now, on the page, it takes on a newer form, weightier and more polished, and with it, an energy that leaps off the page. A poet's work is never truly done.