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Clarke, John Cooper2024
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Dr John Cooper Clarke's 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 'People's Poet' comes storming out of the gate with an uproarious new collection, reminding us why he is one of Britain's most beloved writers and performers. James Brown, John F. Kennedy, Jesus Christ: nobody is safe from the punk rocker's acerbic pen – and that's 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 Clarke's could summon, WHAT is an exceptional collection from one of our foremost satirists. --
Main title:
WHAT / John Cooper Clarke.
Author:
Clarke, John Cooper, author
Imprint:
London : Picador, 2024.
Collation:
viii, 53 pages ; 21 cm.
Audience:
General.
Contents:
The official guest listSmooth operettaBurnleyBlue collar wallahElvis No. 45Time gentlemen timeLydia, girl with an itchNecrophiliaR U the businessTribute to the late Sir Peter O'SullevanClown townLines upon the death of Mr. Bruce ReynoldsLosersDream home ghettoThugStay outta jail gazAnger manager anger managerOde to the coastElvis No. 46Dekko beachFor George, son of the mailmanDoomedDiez macarenasFrom the marginal pre-dawn schedulesYou don't get it every weekHome honey I'm highToo hot 4 Hoxton too kool 4 skoolSir Tom JonesRolling news bluesHawkeye magooLights kamera achtungBeatnik empireThe slums of BelgraviaThe marital miseries of the Modern Misogynist Male or the rime of the ancient marrierMr Hyde and Mr HydeSheffield.
ISBN:
103503316X97810350331649781035033195
Dewey class:
821.92 CLA821.92
LC class:
PR6103.L37437
Language:
English
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BRN:
99771
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