DR John Cooper Clarke at City Varieties Music Hall, Leeds

DR John Cooper Clarke appears at City Varieties Music Hall in Leeds on 30 October 2026 at 19:00. John Cooper Clarke was often called a "punk poet" in the late 1970s. In that period he released several albums and took the stage with punk and post-punk bands, and he has kept writing and performing since. His first poetry anthology, Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt, came out in 1982. In 2013 the University of Salford gave him an honorary doctorate.