About John Cooper Clarke
John Cooper Clarke, nicknamed “The Bard of Salford,” is an English performance poet and comedian who became known as a punk poet in the late 1970s. He released albums, performed with punk bands, and his 1982 poetry collection inspired a documentary. He also goes by JCC, and his anthology Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt gave its title to a documentary film about him that year. Clarke has kept writing and performing poetry and comedy for decades.
