John Cooper ClarkeJohn Cooper Clarke

John Cooper Clarke is a legendary performance poet. He achieved lasting immortality with two albums recorded in the early 1980s, and remains a brilliant, one-of-a-kind live performer. John was born in Salford, Lancashire, in 1949.

The Friday Poem: ‘Evidently Chickentown’ by John Cooper Clarke

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Classic verse from 1980 by John Cooper Clarke, ahead of his show at the Crystal Palace in Mt Eden on Saturday night.   Evidently Chickentown The fucking cops are fucking keen To fucking keep it fucking clean The fucking chief’s a fucking swine Who fucking draws a fucking line At fucking fun and fucking games … Read more