Part of: Free activities and events, Chester Literature Festival 2022
Luke Wright offers a second, late night show, where he will serve up banger after banger in The Kitchen. This is rock’n’roll poetry at its visceral, inventive best. You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You might even pull.
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14+
Approx 60 mins
| Friday 11 November | 9pm | The Kitchen |
Luke Wright returns with an all new show with deliciously funny poems set against a backdrop of pandemic politics, ageing parents, and the poet’s quest for JOY!
What makes a good cocktail? What on earth is a cinquain? And why have we put the two together? If you join us for a night of boisterous beverages and punchy poetry, you might just find out.
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