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A Poet's Work is Never Done

ARC, Stockton, Studio: Tuesday 30 June, 7.45pm
4Talent award winner Luke Wright might just be the hardest working man in poetry. Since 2006 he has launched his own curve-ball bid to become Poet Laureate, programmed and hosted Latitude Festival’s poetry arena (the largest poetry event in Europe) and become the newest poet-in-residence on BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live. A Poet’s Work is Never Done is Luke’s third show and the most poetry-packed to date. Working without the constraints of a theme Wright offers us ten new poems: follow Camping Dad on his ‘perpetual tow’, do meths with Cool Mum and meet Wright’s Sex Butler.

Purchasing hairspray, choosing a belt,
waiting for cheese on toast to melt
and daytime TV doesn’t watch itself.
A poet’s work is never done.

Tickets: £8/£6

ARC
Dovecot Street
Stockton on Tees
TS18 1LL
www.arconline.co.uk