Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt

The godfather of British performance poetry

Daily Telegraph

There are a legion of new young poets who rightly pay homage to Cooper Clarke

Julian Hall, Independent

A poet who writes about darkness and decay but makes people laugh, a human cartoon, a gentleman punk, a man who has stayed exactly the same for thirty years but never grown stale. John Cooper Clarke is an original

Claire Smith, Scotsman

Smart, rude and angry

Simon Hattenstone, Guardian