Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt

Author: Clarke, John Cooper

Punk, New Wave & Indie

Published on 20 September 2012 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage) in the United Kingdom.

‘Yes, it was be there or be square as, clad in the slum chic of the hipster, he issued the slang anthems of the zip age in the desperate esperanto of the bop. John Cooper Clarke: the name behind the hairstyle, the words walk in the grooves hacking through the hi-fi paradise of true luxury’Punk. Poet. Pioneer.

The Bard of Salford’s seminal collection is as scabrous, wry & vivid now as it was when first published over 25 years ago. ‘The godfather of British performance poetry’Daily Telegraph