Have It

John Cooper Clarke may have an honorary doctorate and a poem on the English Literature GCSE syllabus, but don’t let that fool you: the ‘Poet Laureate of Punk’ is still a bona fide iconoclast. In Have It, a collection of scathing new poems, the Bard of Salford puts his pen to work across a host of painfully funny critiques of modern life.


Praise for John Cooper Clarke:

‘A rhymer to be reckoned with . . . with a panache contemporary poets should aspire to and respect’ – The Sunday Times

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