DR John Cooper Clarke at Blackpool Opera House, 18 November 2026

DR John Cooper Clarke performs at Blackpool Opera House in Blackpool on 18 November 2026, 19:00. John Cooper Clarke is an English performance poet and comedian, also known as JCC and "The Bard of Salford". He was often referred to as a "punk poet" in the late 1970s.

His first releases came on the independent label Rabid, starting with the EP Innocents in October 1977. 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.