{"id":15393,"date":"2017-11-23T23:51:39","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T23:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/?p=15393"},"modified":"2020-08-17T10:58:29","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T10:58:29","slug":"luke-wright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/11\/luke-wright\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Wright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"v1s1\">Luke Wright is a poet and theatre-maker. His poetry stage shows have toured the world and played sold-out runs in London and Edinburgh. He is a regular contributor to BBC Radio and his verse documentary on Channel 4 was nominated for a Grierson Award. He has two collections of poems,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"v1s2\"><em>Mondeo Man<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"v1s1\">and<\/span><span class=\"v1s2\">\u00a0<em>The Toll<\/em>.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"v1s1\">His debut verse play,\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"v1s2\">What I Learned from Johnny Bevan<\/span><\/em><span class=\"v1s1\">, won The Scotsman Fringe First Award, The Saboteur Award for best show, and The Stage Award for Acting Excellence. He has two other verse plays<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><em><span class=\"v1s2\">Frankie Vah<\/span><\/em><span class=\"v1s1\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"v1s2\">The Remains of Logan Dankworth<\/span><\/em><span class=\"v1s1\"><em>\u00a0<\/em>(winner Saboteur Award for best show, 2020) published by Penned in the Margins. A double album of his poems,\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"v1s2\">Twenty<\/span><\/em><span class=\"v1s1\">, was released on the Nymphs &amp; Thugs label in 2019 to celebrate 20 years of performing. He is a regular tour support for John Cooper Clarke and The Libertines.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lukewright.co.uk\">Visit Luke&#8217;s website<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter,com\/lukewrightpoet\">Follow Luke on Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke Wright is a poet and theatre-maker. His poetry stage shows have toured the world and played sold-out runs in London and Edinburgh. He is a regular contributor to BBC Radio and his verse documentary on Channel 4 was nominated for a Grierson Award. He has two collections of poems,\u00a0Mondeo Man\u00a0and\u00a0The Toll.\u00a0His debut verse play,\u00a0What [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,231,129],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15393"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19577,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15393\/revisions\/19577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}