Books
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2022
BeastWhat makes us animals? In “Beast”, Luke Morgan sets out to balance the inconvenient truths of our nature with the ideas of who we believe we can be. An autobiography of sorts, told through the lens of the animal kingdom, “Beast” is a visceral exploration of the beasts within us all. Honest, raw, primal and beautiful, this collection of poems aims to challenge your faith in humankind, before restoring it anew.
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2016
Honest WallsHonest Walls is the debut poetry collection from writer, filmmaker, and actor Luke Morgan. Whether he is imagining a cafe in liftoff or playing with a skeleton in a science lab, the author connects us to the moment, maps it, brings us beyond it, and changes the way we look at the world.
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PRaise for BEAST
"There's a real ambition on display...these images show a striking, energetic imagination with potential to charge a poem with enough voltage"
Seán Hewitt, The Irish Times
"pulses with a feral, nerve-sharpening energy...everyone must read it."
Ciarán O'Rourke, Skylight 47
"Here is a lively voice, a voice alive to ideas and language."
Niall MacMonagle
Seán Hewitt, The Irish Times
"pulses with a feral, nerve-sharpening energy...everyone must read it."
Ciarán O'Rourke, Skylight 47
"Here is a lively voice, a voice alive to ideas and language."
Niall MacMonagle
Listen
RTÉ Poetry ProgrammeLuke speaks to legendary broadcaster Olivia O'Leary on RTÉ Radio 1 about Beast and reads some poems from the collection. Click on the image to listen.
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Words that BurnAn interview with Ben Collopy from Words that Burn. Luke speaks about myth, memory, masculinity and community and reads poems from Beast.
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Poetry Films
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from "Beast" (2022), "Rodent" is a poem about a heart condition. Join Gregory and Tig the rat for a light-hearted exploration of a poet coming to terms with the pesky pet in his chest.
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from Eavan Boland's final issue of Poetry Ireland Review (2020), "Refurbishment" explores heartbreak using the metaphor of a building site.
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An Excerpt from "Beast"
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As featured in Poetry Ireland Review (ed. Colette Bryce)
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The poet wishes to thank the Arts Council of Ireland, with whose generous support in the form of a literature bursary in 2021 he was able to complete "Beast".
See what kind of funding opportunities there are at www.artscouncil.ie |