Luke Wright & Friends

Contact: Gary.Budden@richmond.gov.uk

What does the world need in this time of global economic crisis? More poems.

Nasty Little Press brings you new work from poets best known for their live performances. They have published pamphlets by Luke Wright and John Osborne, Byron Vincent and Martin Figura, with more to come.

Presented by Luke Wright, all four nasty little pressers will be reading on this high performance evening. There's not a lot more you could ask for in life.

Martin Figura is scouser who reached the rank of Major in the army before sacking it all off to become a photographer and poet. He is a free spirit with well-polished shoes. His pamphlet – Boring the Ar*e Off Young People – is published by Nasty Little Press in November 2010.

Luke Wright is poet-in-residence on BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live and in 2009 took poetry onto prime-time with his Channel 4 special Seven Ages of Love. With Aisle16 he created the show Poetry Boyband which won Time Out Critics’ Choice of the Year 2005. His first pamphlet – High Performance – was published by Nasty Little Press in November 2009.

John Osborne the poet that makes you go “aaahh…” – in a good way. He has been melting the hearts of festival-goers and barflies across the country for four years now, with poems that steer a skilful course between the mundane, the sentimental and the extraordinary. Nasty Little Press published his first poetry pamphlet, What if Men Burst in Wearing Balaclavas?, in February 2010

Byron Vincent sink-estate dandy and festival stalwart who produces work that ranges from surreal punk-rock disquisitions about the socialist inclinations of the Smurfs to astutely acerbic examinations of the fraying tapestry of British culture. His pamphlet – Barking Doggerel – was published by Nasty Little Press in May 2010

For booking please visit: www.richmondliterature.com
Or call on: 020 8831 6494

Price: £5.00

Time: 8:00pm