John Cooper Clarke WHAT Paperback Book

A riotous poetry collection from the Poet Laureate of Punk and the Bard of Salford, Dr John Cooper Clarke. Nothing short of dazzling&#39 &ndash Alex Turner, musician and frontman of the Arctic Monkeys&#39A bighearted poet of boundless humour and unmistakable style&#39 &ndash Kit Fan, GuardianDr John Cooper Clarke&#39s dazzling, scabrous voice has reverberated through pop culture for decades, his influence on generations of performance poets and musicians plain for all to see. In WHAT, the original &#39People&#39s Poet&#39 comes storming out of the gate with an uproarious poetry collection, reminding us why he is one of Britain&#39s most beloved writers and performers. James Brown, John F. Kennedy, Jesus Christ nobody is safe from the punk rocker&#39s acerbic pen &ndash and that&#39s just the first poem. Hot on the heels of The Luckiest Guy Alive and his sprawling, encyclopaediac memoir I Wanna Be Yours, the good Doctor returns with his most trenchant collection of poems yet. Vivid and alive, with a sensitivity only a writer with a life as varied and extraordinary as Cooper Clarke&#39s could summon, WHAT is an exceptional collection from one of our foremost satirists. John Cooper Clarke&#39s book WHAT was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 05022024. | John Cooper Clarke WHAT Paperback Book