Luigi Coppola

Luigi Coppola is a teacher, poet, DIY music producer and multimedia artist (recording and performing as The Only Emperor), first-generation immigrant and avid rum and coke drinker. A graduate of the Warwick University Creative writing programme, he is Bridport Prize shortlisted, Ledbury and National Poetry Competition longlisted, has been included in the Poetry Archive Worldview winner’s list.

His publications include Worple Press’s anthology The Tree Line as well as print and online journals including Acumen, Ink, Sweat and Tears, Iota, Magma, Rattle and Rialto. He has performed poetry and music across the UK, including at the Poetry & Words tent at Glastonbury, literature festivals in Brighton, Coventry and London, and numerous events, slams and open mics. In 2022 he collaborated with the American singer Kyla Gabka on her debut album Waiting for Autumn and is working towards a first collection of poetry and further music releases that will at some point signal the end of days.