John Cooper Clarke talks to Miranda Sawyer

The original People’s Poet comes storming out of the gate to share his uproarious new poetry collection. James Brown, John F Kennedy, Jesus Christ: nobody is safe from the punk rocker’s acerbic pen – and that’s just the first poem.

Don’t miss this opportunity to hear the dazzling, scabrous voice of Dr John Cooper Clarke for yourself – it’s reverberated through pop culture for decades, his influence on generations of performance poets and musicians plain for all to see. WHAT is his most trenchant collection of poems yet, vivid and alive, and eclectic as only a life as varied and extraordinary as Cooper Clarke’s could summon. He talks to journalist Miranda Sawyer.