Stand-up poet, comedian and walking shortbread tin Elvis McGonagall launches his new book 'Complete and Utter Cult!' live on Zoom with very special guests - Luke Wright, Jonny Fluffypunk and Erin Bolens!

Tickets are donation based, but we also really encourage you to buy the book!

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About the book: This new collection of satirical verse captures Elvis’ ongoing futile exasperation at the dismal trajectory of our post-truth world as it trundles along the primrose path to Beelzebub’s bottomless pit. Fake news and COVID-19. Organic novichok and Piers Morgan. Yes, the good ship lollipop is sailing down the shitter. Climb aboard with Elvis as he bellows into the void of our diseased, burning planet and we all drift towards a giant melting iceberg.

“Complete and Utter Cult!” tackles everything from the pernicious effects of the patriarchy to disappearing rainforests via Brexit milkshakes and a pandemic. Yes, all the feel-good hits are here, fully annotated with the innermost thoughts from the canyons of Elvis’ mind as he banged away on his typewriter at The Graceland Caravan Park. And there’s a love poem.

“Elvis McGonagall is one of my favourite poets. His poems have wit, intelligence and imagination. He performs with honesty and integrity and makes me laugh, think and feel. After, but not until, you've bought all my books I thoroughly recommend his”

- Henry Normal

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Luke Wright

Luke Wright is a spit and sawdust wordsmith. His poems are inventive and engaging, documenting 21st century British life with wit, humanity, and panache. He performs his work with snarl and spit and he’s toured his wares around the world for 20 years.

He’s written two poetry collections and his plays have been published as epic poems by Penned in the Margins. His latest pamphlet, After Engine Trouble (Rough Trade Books), won the Saboteur Award for best pamphlet in 2019. To celebrate 20 years of gigging Nymphs & Thugs put out the double album TWENTY on LP and download.

Jonny Fluffypunk

An economic refugee from the home counties, Jonny Fluffypunk began his ‘career’ spitting vicious political verse between bands at punk gigs until cured by a West Country shaman.

He has two volumes of poetry, prose and threadbare philosophy- ‘The Sustainable Nihilists’ Handbook’ and ‘Poundland Rimbaud’- out on the Burning Eye imprint, and his solo no-fi stand-up spoken word show ‘Man Up, Jonny Fluffypunk- One Man’s Struggle with Late-Onset Responsibility’ spent 2015 touring around the garden sheds, allotments and summer houses of Britain in a blatant championing of homespun DIY culture.

Erin Bolens

Erin is a poet, performer and facilitator from Leeds. She has performed across the country at venues and festivals including Glastonbury Festival, Camp Bestival, The Royal Albert Hall, Cheltenham Literary Festival and has written for E4, Nationwide Building Society and The Royal Academy of Art.

She is a former Glastonbury slam champion, former Roundhouse Resident Artist,was one of the first 'Boat Poets' for Totally Thames Festival and was a Roaming Poet in Residence for Spine Festival, curated by Apples and Snakes.

Erin's debut collection of poems 'Alternate Endings' is out now with Burning Eye Books.