“Is that a lot?” John Cooper Clarke asks The Guardian when they tell him The Arctic Monkeys‘ musical cover of his poem “I Wanna Be Yours” recently passed the One Billion Streams mark on Spotify. “An ...

In a vain attempt at bourgeois credibility, Manchester’s sharp-dressed, sharp-delivering punk poet Lenny, changed his name to John Cooper Clarke and embarked on a ?polysyllabic excursion though ...

Who hasn’t? I’m an indiscriminate kleptomaniac where poetry’s concerned. Delivery-wise, Sir Peter O’Sullivan is paramount. I had an inner-city upbringing so the hot language of social flux and rampant ...

Punk poet, actor and musician John Cooper Clarke will be heading to North America this fall for select shows in support of his 2020 memoir I Wanna Be Yours. So far there have been three shows ...

John Cooper Clarke at the Moroccan: Fans of old school, classic British punk will know the name John Cooper Clarke. The Mancunian punk poet laureate made a name for himself articulating the plight of ...

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