DR John Cooper Clarke

John Cooper Clarke performs at Theatre Royal - Brighton in Brighton on 14 October 2026 at 19:00. John Cooper Clarke is an English performance poet and comedian who was often referred to as a "punk poet" in the late 1970s. In the late 1970s and early 1980s he released several albums and performed on stage with punk and post-punk bands. His first poetry anthology, Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt, was published in 1982. In 2013 the University of Salford presented him with an honorary doctorate.