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A big-hearted poet of boundless humour and unmistakable styleKit Fan, Guardian

A rhymer to be reckoned with . . . with a panache contemporary poets should aspire to and respectThe Sunday Times

A primordial gift for languageFinancial Times

I say to people, “Have you heard of John Cooper Clarke?” and if they say, “Yes, yeah he’s an absolute genius” and you just go, “Oh – OK, you’ve saved me a lot of time.Steve Coogan