Tony Lawrie

Functional Literary New Realism

​I am a lyricist and poet whose work represents a definitive shift in contemporary 21st Century Literature.

I aim to be "The Poet of the Underdog," and a founder of the Functional Literary New Realism movement—a literary approach that seeks to provide a moral and psychological "survival manual" for 21st-century life.

​My poems and lyrical portfolio serves as a bridge between the Victorian stoicism of the likes of Rudyard Kipling to the grit and chaos of the modern 21st Century.

From the systemic social critiques of "Cruel Brittania" to the vocational heroism of "Mr. Houlahan," My work elevates the "Ordinary" and "Mundane" to the democratised "Heroic" and the "Sacred" of the "Everyman."

Whether performing a domestic archaeology of a "Used cup by the stand" or mapping the strategic political deceptions of "Political Pathology" or it's tactics of the "The Great Cheating Game," My writing is always "Literary Functional"—designed to be rhythmic, lived-in, used, and felt, ...and then forever placed, like a blues verse, into your pocket for keeps!

​I'm a chronicler of the "Prince and the Pauper" alike, I aim to provide a literary "Idealistic Direction" for a modern and often chaotic age of uncertainty, proving that true wealth lies really in the everyday "Sacred Places" that both fame and money can never buy.

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