The godfather of British performance poetry * Daily Telegraph * Smart, rude and angry -- Simon Hattenstone * Guardian * There are a legion of new young poets who rightly pay homage to Cooper Clarke -- Julian Hall * Independent * A poet who writes about darkness and decay but makes people laugh, a human cartoon, a gentleman punk, a man who has stayed exactly the same for thirty years but never grown stale. John Cooper Clarke is an original -- Claire Smith * Scotsman *