Author: Cooper Clarke, John LancashirePublished on 13 February 2025 by PAN MACMILLAN (Picador) in the United Kingdom.Paperback | 64 pages196 x 153 x 7 | 94g A riotous poetry collection from the Poet Laureate of Punk and the Bard of Salford, Dr John Cooper Clarke.Nothing short of dazzling – Alex Turner, musician and frontman of the Arctic MonkeysA big-hearted poet of boundless humour and unmistakable style – Kit Fan, GuardianDr John Cooper Clarkes 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 Peoples Poet comes storming out of the gate with an uproarious new collection, reminding us why he is one of Britains most beloved writers and performers. James Brown, John F. Kennedy, Jesus Christ: nobody is safe from the punk rockers acerbic pen – and thats 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 Clarkes could summon, WHAT is an exceptional collection from one of our foremost satirists.John Cooper Clarkes book WHAT was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 05-02-2024.
