'Yes,it was be there or be square as,clad in the slum chic of the hipster,he issued the slang anthems of the zip age in the desperate esperanto of the bop. John Cooper Clarke: the name behind the hairstyle,the words walk in the grooves hacking through the hi-fi paradise of true luxury'Punk. Poet. Pioneer. The Bard of Salford's seminal collection is as scabrous,wry & vivid now as it was when first published over 25 years ago.'The godfather of British performance poetry'Daily Telegraph
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099583769Number of pages: 112Weight: 109 gDimensions: 195 x 130 x 10 mm
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The godfather of British performance poetrySmart,rude and angryThere are a legion of new young poets who rightly pay homage to Cooper ClarkeA 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
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