The King’s School is delighted to announce Luke Wright as its new poet in residence for the next year.

Luke follows in the footsteps of our first poet-in-residence - Clive McWilliam. English teacher and lead teacher on poetry at King’s Helen Lydon said: “We are really pleased to have Luke at King’s, engaging and inspiring our students with his performance energy, his topical subject choices and his mix of intelligent satire, humour and heartfelt lyrics. Luke can convince anyone that poetry is fun, relevant and thought-provoking.”

Luke Wright has been well reviewed in the media with The Observer classing him as ‘One of our best young poets’ and The Scotsman claiming that his poetry is ‘Visceral, poignant and riotously funny’.

Luke Wright talks to pupils at The King's School

During the day at King’s Luke ran several workshops, working with the different age groups in the Senior School. He discussed and worked on poetry writing skills, performance and delivery techniques, as well as treating the students to some performances of his latest work.

Since 2006 Luke has written and performed eight one-man shows, touring them to top literary and arts festivals from Australia to Scotland via Hong Kong and Bruges. This is Luke’s third visit to King’s and first in his role as poet-in-residence. In 2015 his debut solo theatre show What I Learned From Johnny Bevan won a prestigious Fringe First Award at The Edinburgh Fringe; Luke also bagged The Stage Award for Acting Excellence. What I Learned From Johnny Bevan tours throughout 2016 (including Chester Literature festival on October 17).