John Cooper Clarke performs in Exeter
Poetry phenomenon and British cult icon John Cooper Clarke is back on tour in the UK in November 2024 for an exclusive handful of shows in some of the UK’s most beautiful theatres and will be performing at the Corn Exchange, Exeter on the 8th November.
John will return to the stage bringing his legendary showcase of poetry and comedy to the South West with a performance at the Corn Exchange. The tour will round off John’s most triumphant year yet, marked by the release of his best-selling poetry collection “WHAT” and a huge, sell out national theatre tour of the UK and USA.
As one of Britain’s most beloved and influential writers and performers, John’s Autumn shows will take fans on a completely one-of-a-kind journey through poetry from classic numbers including Chickentown and Beasley Street to brand new material from the new collection. All interspersed with his usual musings, off the wall chat, riffs, gags and wicked humour.
John’s poetry is loved the world over and no contemporary poet has managed to bring spoken word to the people like John Cooper Clarke. As John often says, his poems are meant to be read out loud and this show is a joyful chance to hear his legendary work performed by the man himself, alongside brand new material fresh out of the mind of JCC. And of course there’ll be plenty of laughs along the way.
This short Autumn tour is an opportunity to see one of the world’s most important and entertaining spoken word artists in some of the UK’s most beautiful theatres.
JOHN COOPER CLARKE AUTUMN 2024 UK TOUR
6th November - The Electric Palace, Bridport
7th November - The Parkhouse Centre, Bude
8th November - Corn Exchange, Exeter
16th November - Opera House, Buxton
19th November - The Pavilion Theatre, Glasgow
Praise for WHAT and I Wanna Be Yours:
“A big-hearted poet of boundless humour and unmistakable style, Clarke has written some of the catchiest contemporary ballads about social injustice” - The Guardian
“At 75, he’s still a rhymer to be reckoned with, the trademark Mancunian snarl audible here in each poem’s thumping rhythms.” - The Sunday Times
'It’s impossible not to hear Clarke’s voice, rhythmic & deadpan, while reading his memoir. Like his poetry,his prose style is wry and dry. . .Mad anecdotes & whimsical gags abound, but wisdom often lurks beneath the wordplay.' The Guardian
'I Wanna Be Yours is fantastically entertaining . . . As a writer of comic prose Clarke is the match of anyone alive, and his turns of phrase are as sharp as his suits (the view over 1950s Manchester from the fire escape behind his house was “Coronation Street for a million miles”). His drawl is as much a part of his peculiar ars poetica as the words of the poems themselves. Every sentence he writes, you read in his voice. By the end of the nearly 500 pages of I Wanna be Yours I felt I’d not so much read a memoir as listened to an outrageous confession from a psychoanalyst’s couch.'
The Times Saturday Review
‘Riveting’
The Observer Book of the Week
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Pictured: John Cooper Clarke. Photo credit: Wolfgang Webster.
