John Cooper Clarke (born 25 January 1949) is an English performance poet and comedian who styled himself as a "punk poet" in the late 1970s. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he released several albums.

2024年9月16日 · Once known as the wild-haired poet laureate for Great Britain’s punk rock scene in the 1970s, fast-talking, public speaker Dr. John Cooper Clarke has now become the UK’s most caustically comic social critic, fanciful storyteller and performance poet.

2024年2月17日 · Cooper Clarke has more live performance albums than poetry collections—seven to three—and his hero is Elvis. His poems are sonic tricks that make full use of rhyme, rhythm and alliteration, and when he reads them right, they launch out of his mouth with an almost rap-like quality.

2024年1月1日 · Punk poet John Cooper Clarke writes to his younger self about poetry, sartorial autonomy, and becoming a 'modern day Cyrano de Bergerac'.

2017年5月15日 · Dr John Cooper Clarke, who shot to fame in the in the 1970s as the original people's poet is coming to Gloucester Guildhall on Friday April 15.

2020年10月29日 · From cabaret to punk, Nico to Kate Moss, Alex Turner to Paul McCartney, John Cooper Clarke has been there, rhymed that, and even survived 17 years on heroin. As he publishes his debut memoir I Wanna Be Yours, we ask: what makes him The People’s Poet? – I Don’t Want To Be Nice (1978)

2024年3月26日 · In the face of such skepticism, the distinctively bold ‘punk poet’ Dr John Cooper Clarke emerged in the 1970s.

Dr John Cooper Clarke's 2019 autobiography, named after his most famous poem I Wanna Be Yours, (Macmillan), is a groundbreaking piece of literature. Clarke goes into fascinating detail about his early life in Manchester leading up to punk superstardom, drug addiction and then the massive comeback as major poet he enjoys today.

2020年10月27日 · Punk’s Poet Laureate Dr John Cooper Clarke talks to us about inspiration, his autobiography I Wanna Be Yours and getting mistaken for a Rolling Stone.

2024年5月8日 · “I THINK I first came over with Dr Feelgood around 1979,” recalls Dr John Cooper Clarke of his very first visit to the north, back in the days when he first rose to prominence as Britain’s...