DR John Cooper Clarke at Playhouse, Whitley Bay, 4 November 2026

Tickets start at GBP 37.90. John Cooper Clarke is an English performance poet and comedian who was often referred to as a "punk poet" in the late 1970s. 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. Clarke began performing in working men's clubs, and his first releases came on the independent label Rabid, starting with the EP Innocents in October 1977.