John Cooper Clarke

the luckiest guy alive

John Cooper Clarke 1979. Tim Duncan, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

I REALLY couldn’t tell you whether the poetry of John Cooper Clarke is technically good. I know it’s been included on school syllabi, so somebody must think so. He began his career as a punk poet, and still is to a large extent, so I don’t…