Poetry legend John Cooper Clarke was on the BBC this morning (Radio 4) - back out there performing regularly, after years of silence. This is very good news. Clarke is a major talent and an influence on witty performance-interested poets like Luke Wright and Tim Wells today. A dream: to have him appear for the Oxfam series. I am working on it.
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Thousands turned up to watch him at the Latitude poetry tent, all standing, crammed together with the front row dry humping the stage.
Luckily, he only turned up twenty minutes late this time and Luke Wright and Byron Vincent were on hand to keep the hordes entertained.
It was a magic night for poetry, preceded by the obligatory backstage chorus of "Where the f*** is he?"