HOMEWORK: SEASON 3
EVENT 2: CYNICAL BALLADS
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44-46 Pollard Row, Wednesday 23rd June
TIME OUT Critics’ Choice awarded literary cabaret club Homework triumphantly returns for a third season.
‘Highlights of the spoken word scene’ – SUNDAY TIMES
Season 3 continues with the debut of Luke Wright’s acerbic poetry show, Cynical Ballads.
‘the best young performance poet around’ – THE OBSERVER
Luke Wright's Cynical Ballads leads us through the rundown shopping precincts and gentlemen's clubs of modern Britain. Starring fat bullies, balding chip shop proprietors and posh twits, these tales range from the darkly comic to just plain dark. Expect suicide, Bollinger and crash diets in a show that will shock and delight.
Luke Wright is resident poet on Radio 4’s Sony award-winning Saturday Live. He is a founding member of poetry collective Aisle16 and the curator and host of Latitude’s Poetry Arena, Europe’s largest poetry event. Metro called him ‘performance poetry’s key revivalist’. In 2009 he took poetry onto primetime TV, attracting a million-plus viewers for his Channel 4 show Seven Ages of Love. He counts Alvin Stardust and Patti Smith amongst his celebrity fans.
Joining Luke will be fellow Aisle16 members Tim Clare, Joe Dunthorne, John Osborne and Ross Sutherland, adding their own grim, subversive stories to the mix.
HOMEWORK is a mix of poetry, stand-up, literature and music that takes place monthly at Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club. Each night sees the HOMEWORK residents – poetry collective Aisle16 – showcasing new work, alongside big name guest performers. Previous guests include Kate Nash, Jon Ronson, comedian Kevin Eldon and Fringe award-winner Tim Key.
Season 3 runs every month until October. It includes an instructive night called ‘How To Write Badly Well’, based on Joel Stickley’s popular blog of the same name, and an evening devoted to the worst performance poem of all time – Tom Cruise’s ‘Last Barman Poet’, in Cocktail.
