“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 ...

John Cooper Clarke is in the middle of his first U.S. tour in over 35 years. The storied poet, known in the U.K. for bridging the gap between punk, comedy, and beatnik-inspired poetry, Clarke has ...

Liverpool-based skate label Lost Art has announced a new collaboration with legendary U.K. poet John Cooper Clarke. The capsule celebrates Clarke’s autobiography I Wanna Be Yours, which was released ...

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 ...

Punk poet John Cooper Clarke is to receive the 2025 Northern Music Award in recognition of his influence in the world of music and poetry. The awards, which celebrates musical talent from the north of ...

John Cooper Clarke is nursing a tumbler of rum in a wood-panelled London boozer. “It’s Havana Gold. Unspiced. The one pirates drink,” he says, impishly flashing a mouthful of gold teeth worthy of ...

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 shot to prominence in the 1970s as the original ‘people’s poet’. His unique poetry was put to music by producer Martin Hannett and a band of Mancunians The Invisible Girls. Seminal ...

John Cooper Clarke Journeys from Manchester to the Moroccan: It felt like all of L.A.’s English residents were at the Moroccan Lounge on Saturday evening to see the Bard of Salford himself, Dr. John ...