DR John Cooper Clarke at The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh

DR John Cooper Clarke appears at The Queen's Hall in Edinburgh on 27 November 2026, 19:00. John Cooper Clarke is an English performance poet and comedian who was often called a "punk poet" in the late 1970s. He is also known as JCC and "The Bard of Salford".

In the late 1970s and early 1980s he released several albums and performed on stage with punk and post-punk bands, and he has continued to write and perform since. 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. He has released three anthologies of poetry and a memoir, as well as many albums and singles.