Luke Wright Chronicles the UK's Brexit Toll on 2017 Tour

Following the unprecedented multi award winning success of his first stage play, What I Learned From Johnny Bevan, one of the UK's favourite and most accessible poets, Luke Wright, returns to his roots in the first half of 2017 with 25 nationwide dates performing poems from his new book The Toll.

Wright makes poetry accessible, normal even. The poems in The Toll visit the flat-roofed pubs and half bought couches of Brexit Britain as it struggles with doubt, duty and half-cut nights spent shouting impotently at Question Time on TV. Wright's poetry ranges from the laugh out loud funny to the tear-inducingly poignant and back again, as he effortlessly takes his audience with him on the ride switching emotional gears without missing a beat.

'I wrote these poems over the last three years' says Luke. 'There's a range of subject matter including lots of stuff about family, about England, and about heartache. It's about The Toll that life takes on you, but also about duty and trying to do the right thing. As ever in my work, politics and social issues always lurk in the background ready to pounce ...'

Spend an evening with a gifted and compelling raconteur at the top of his game, as he spits out visceral, inventive verse that sweats, bleeds and sings.

The Toll follows Luke's 2013 debut collection Mondeo Man, of which Huffinton Post noted 'If any contemporary collection is going to convince the unbeliever that poetry can be a riot of cheek, giggles, boobs, tears and Facebook - while keeping its artistic integrity firmly intact - Mondeo Man is it.'

Luke Wright is a poet, theatre maker and broadcaster who has written and starred in eight solo shows of his poetry as well as 'What I Learned from Johnny Bevan', the play that sold out a three week run at London's Soho Theatre and toured extensively. It won a Fringe First award for new writing, The Stage Award For Acting Excellence and The Saboteur Award for Best Spoken Word Show. It is published in both hardback and paperback.

He tours the world each year (as far afield as China and Australia) with his unique brand of poetry and can often be seen opening for John Cooper Clarke. His verse documentaries on Channel 4 have been enjoyed by millions of viewers and his poems can often be heard on BBC Radios 3 & 4 and sometimes further afield. He has been a regular contributor to Sony Award-winning Saturday Live and has numerous main channel TV appearances under his belt. Luke curates the spoken word line-ups at The Latitude Festival, Festival Number 6 and The Edinburgh International Book Festival.

29th March
London (Putney) Half Moon 93 Lower Richmond Rd, Putney SW15 1EU
8pm £10/£8 020 8780 9383 www.halfmoon.co.uk

26 April
London Bethnall Green Working Men's Club, 42-44 Pollard Row E2 6NB
8pm £10 0207 739 7170 www.workersplaytime.net

21 May
London Lion & Unicorn Theatre 42-44 Gaisford St, Kentish Town NW5 2ED
7.30pm £8/£10 020 7267 2304 www.lionandunicorntheatre.co.uk