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I believed that Fukayama line: the end of history. But History
didn't end, did it? Logan Dankworth, columnist and Twitter warrior,
grew up romanticising the political turmoil of the 1980s. Now, as
the EU Referendum looms he is determined to be in the fray of the
biggest political battle for years. Meanwhile, Logan's wife Megan
wants to leave London to better raise their daughter. As tensions
rise at home and across the nation, something is set to be lost
forever. The third of Luke Wright's trilogy of political verse
plays looks at trust and privilege in the age of Brexit. "Poet Luke
Wright doesn't mince his words. His performances rumble with rage,
passion and humour. They are also peppered with brilliantly smart
observations. You will leave his show brimming with energy, heart
pounding and brain whirring." The Guardian
'My poor old heart, I've left its drawbridge down' Divorced, and
perhaps a little bruised, Luke Wright journeys off the sunken roads
of southern England and into himself, pursued by murderous swans,
empty car seats, and his father's skeleton clocks. Both brazen and
elegiac, these poems pull on the 'tidy hem' of responsible
existence, unravelling the banal frustrations of online outrage and
ageing friends, and grasping at something 'beyond our squeaky
comprehension'. Wright files through the shackles of cynicism to
ask how can we let go without giving up. 'Luke Wright is one of the
greats. A poetic pugilist. Beguiling, hypnotic and master of the
emotional sucker-punch. The Feel-Good Movie of the Year is his best
yet.' - Carl Barat
We all want something to believe in. It's 1987 and Frankie Vah
gorges on love, radical politics, and skuzzy indie stardom. But can
he keep it all down? Following the multi award-winning What I
Learned From Johnny Bevan, Luke Wright's second verse play deals
with love, loss and belief, against a backdrop of grubby indie
venues and 80s politics. Expect frenetic guitars, visceral verse,
and a Morrissey-sized measure of heartache. Written and performed
in deft verse by Fringe First and Stage Award for Acting Excellence
winner Luke Wright. 'Pulsating, poetic story-telling' **** (Lyn
Gardner, Guardian).
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The Toll (Paperback)
Luke Wright
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An escaped lion roams the streets of Essex; a lonely pensioner
holds a tower block fete; and a young woman dreams of leaving home.
Travel the unfashionable A-roads and commuter lines of England
-'where industry meets marsh'- with poet Luke Wright. In his
stunning new collection, discover a country riven by inequality and
corruption but sustained by a surreal, gallow's humour. The Toll
combines the elegaic with the anarchic, placing uproarious satire
cheek-by-jowl with wild experiments in form and touching poems of
parenthood. In this mature follow-up to his best-selling debut,
Mondeo Man, Wright captures the strain of austerity Britain,
speaking truth to power and registering the toll it takes on us
all.
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Mondeo Man (Paperback)
Luke Wright
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Explosive political satire and acerbic wit leap from stage to page
in Mondeo Man - the hotly anticipated debut collection from Luke
Wright. Yummy mummies and debauched Tory grandees mingle with drunk
Essex commuters and leering tabloid paps; a small town chip-shop
becomes the site of a heart-wrenching story of failed marriage; and
a televised manhunt enthrals an entire nation. Wide-ranging,
approachable and formally adept, Mondeo Man both celebrates and
laments a country of disappearing pubs, celebrity anti-heroes and
motorway service stations, perfectly capturing the English idiom at
the turn of the twenty-first century. Whether in sonnet, ballad,
ottava rima or univocalism, Wright's fast-paced rhythms and
inventive rhyme always hit the spot and never pull their punches.
This is poetry at its most contemporary, satirical, fun, and
archetypally English.
At university, two worlds collide. Johnny Bevan, the whip-smart,
mercurial kid from a city council estate, saves Nick Burton from
living his father's safe life, but it ends tragically. Years later,
a world-weary Nick is reminded of their friendship. Can Johnny save
Nick again? Luke Wright makes his theatre debut with a story of
friendship, class and a really bad idea for a festival. All told in
beautifully deft and funny verse. 'Some of the most incisive
writing you'll see' (Exeunt). ***** (Scotsman, List).
This book is the first systematic historical examination of Samuel
Taylor Coleridge's prose religious works. Coleridge (1772-1834),
the son of a clergyman, "was born and died a communicating member
of the Church of England." He was a prolific writer on the subject
of the relationship between church and state. At age twenty-three,
Coleridge published his first theological work, Lectures on
Revealed Religion, which focused on the concept of reason
facilitating virtue. Luke Wright maintains that this theme unites
Coleridge's theological writings, including the posthumous
Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit (1935). Although he was an
advocate of radical politics in the 1790s, by the time Coleridge
published The Friend (1809), he had become high Tory. His major
contribution to Anglican religious discourse was the revival of the
Tory position on church and state, which saw the two as an organic
unity rather than separate entities forming an alliance. His
writings were vigorously opposed to the Court Whig theory of church
and state. After Coleridge's death in 1834, his arguments were
taken up by William Gladstone and carried forward. Wright's careful
reconstruction of Coleridge's dedication to church-state issues
provides a new perspective on the writer himself and on the
intellectual history of early nineteenth-century England.
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