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I Wanna Be Yours: John Cooper Clarke

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Crossing The Floor, another particular favourite, is more contentious; it caused one Goodreads reviewer to become so enraged that he decided he'd put the book in the bin, rather than donate it to a charity shop where it would at least have done some good. The reviewer condemns the poem as offensively transphobic, but imo he completely misses the point. In his typically mordant style, JCC tells the story of a man who's just fed up with being a man and doing 'man' things, and wants to dress as a woman instead - but he doesn't sound 100% committed, and he's very realistic: Clarke is a great raconteur and in this book - social historian, a hugely engaging, eminently (on the whole) likeable personality, a punk poet of the people, who has been hugely influential in both poetry and culture alike. I also enjoyed “I’ve Fallen in Love with My Wife,” written in 11 stanzas, most ending with the title. It begins,

Clarke was born in Salford, Lancashire, in 1949. [2] He lived in the Higher Broughton area of the city and became interested in poetry after being inspired by his English teacher, John Malone, [3] whom he described as "a real outdoor guy, an Ernest Hemingway type, red blooded, literary bloke". [4] During an April 2018 episode of Steve Jones's radio show Jonesy's Jukebox, Clarke revealed one of his early inspirations to be the poet Sir Henry Newbolt, reciting from memory a portion of Newbolt's poem "Vitaï Lampada". I was really excited when I found out that he was going to be releasing an autobiography. His crazy and random tales from his crazy and random life. I couldn’t wait. I listened to I Wanna Be Yours on Audiobook. I wanted to hear how John Cooper Clarke told his stories. Would they be like his poems? Would I be totally mesmerised and engaged. The answer to both of those questions is yes. His lyric style does not end at his poetic outputs. I genuinely feel that his lyricism and enunciation would be like having an every day conversation with John Cooper Clarke. The book is funny in places and I suppose written with a dry sense of humour, I would like to have learnt more about the last twenty years since he stopped taking hard drugs. He says it has been more of the same, but to me so had those twenty years of hard drug use.Adams, Tim (5 April 2014). "John Cooper Clarke interview: 'Poetry is not something you have to retire from' ". The Guardian . Retrieved 4 July 2016. I remember enjoying ‘Kung Fu International’ in the’70’s and have recently seen his appearances on the comedy quiz show ‘8 out of 10 cats does countdown’, including a performance of the poem which forms the title of this book. That early section is a fascinating look at popular culture of the 40s, 50s and 60s in some ways. But in other ways, it feels like a different book from what follows... A portrait of the artist as a young, and then middle aged, drug addict (the sections of the book I found most interesting).

Tim Adams (6 April 2014). "John Cooper Clarke interview: 'Poetry is not something you have to retire from' ". The Guardian . Retrieved 11 June 2016.A joy to listen to, punctured with his trademark caustic wit and wisdom, Clarke the People's Poet is capable of a florid turn of phrase, but keeps the lyrical flourishes infrequent enough to be impactful. Clarke the Cabaret Comic can't resist the occasional corny feedline punchline but there are more proper laughs in here than the majority of memoirs by better-known comedians, and the humour, which runs the gamut from playground to gallows, never distracts from what is a remarkably controlled narrative of an out-of-control period in the life of one of Manchester and Britain's finest. One of the greatest and coolest things I've always been able to tell people is that, not only do I live in the town where Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and Humpty Dumpty were written, but that the captivating individual that is John Cooper Clarke lives here. And when you happen to see him, in these very ordinary settings, it's a bit like magic. He has such a striking and inimitable presence, it's like seeing a Tim Burton character come to life. He's like Edward Scissorhand's older and more sensitive brother.

I didn’t want the 15+ hours of this to end, and had I the time, I’d listen to it again right away. The bits of the book I’d previously dipped into were superbly written, but hearing the Bargain Basement Baudelaire read his own life story lifts it to another level altogether. Toppermost of the poppermost. a b c Hattenstone, Simon (29 May 2012). "John Cooper Clarke: 'It's diabolical how poor I am' ". The Guardian . Retrieved 9 October 2015. Michigan. Supreme Court , Randolph Manning , George C. Gibbs , Thomas McIntyre Cooley , William Jennison , Elijah W. Meddaugh , William Dudley Fuller , Hovey K. Clarke , John Adams Brooks , Hoyt Post , Henry Allen Chaney , James M. Reasoner , Richard W. Cooper , Marquis B. Eaton , Herschel Bouton Lazell

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Michigan. Supreme Court , Randolph Manning , George C. Gibbs , Thomas McIntyre Cooley , Elijah W. Meddaugh , William Jennison , Henry Allen Chaney , Hovey K. Clarke , Hoyt Post , William Dudley Fuller , John Adams Brooks , Marquis B. Eaton , Herschel Bouton Lazell , James M. Reasoner , Richard W. Cooper Clarke added: “It was a tedious saying among hippies: if you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. I was very much part of the problem.”

Michigan. Supreme Court , Randolph Manning , Elijah W. Meddaugh , George C. Gibbs , Thomas McIntyre Cooley , William Jennison , William Dudley Fuller , Hovey K. Clarke , John Adams Brooks , Hoyt Post , Henry Allen Chaney , James M. Reasoner , Richard W. Cooper , Marquis B. Eaton , Herschel Bouton Lazell However, every so often I find a poem that I just love. For me, one of those poems was I Wanna Be Yours by John Cooper Clarke. It made me curious, I started reading other poems by him and I kind of fell for his clever use of rhyme and unusual emphasis on syllables. Yep. I really liked it. A book of two halves by Britain's "bargain basement Baudelaire" as poet John Cooper Clarke writes an autobiography of sorts. The first half of the book is an exercise in nostalgia as Clarke details growing up in the 1950's, 60's and early 1970's and the social and cultural developments in Britain during those decades with a welter of information about his favourite films, books, comics, songs, bands and much more.Michigan. Supreme Court , Randolph Manning , George C. Gibbs , Thomas McIntyre Cooley , William Jennison , Elijah W. Meddaugh , Henry Allen Chaney , Hovey K. Clarke , Hoyt Post , William Dudley Fuller , John Adams Brooks , Marquis B. Eaton , Herschel Bouton Lazell , James M. Reasoner , Richard W. Cooper Some of the stories John Cooper Clarke tells are enough to make any punk fan toe-curlingly envious. I know I was as I read it. I wanted to have the experiences that he had. I wanted to be living that roguish lifestyle and see the things that he had seen, the performers that he got to see. I didn’t live through that time period but I did get to experience it somewhat vicariously through I Wanna Be Yours. This is definitely a book that needs a reread. I wanted to like this book, I'm a fan of John Cooper Clarke's work and have seen him on stage a couple times and loved his shows. This book was not for me there were too many references to other muicians, which for some people would be of interest, but not me. John Cooper Clarke – punk poet, bard of Salford – has had a chequered life, from growing up in post-war austerity Britain, through hardcore drug abuse, to being a kind of national treasure. saw Clarke present a documentary on Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater in the BBC's second series of The Secret Life of Books. [25] He has appeared as a guest on the comedy panel show Would I Lie To You? on 14 August 2015 [26] and again on 7 January 2022. [27]

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