The Luckiest Guy Alive

About this book

The Luckiest Guy Alive is the first new book of poetry from Dr. John Cooper Clarke for several decades3and a brilliant scabrous hilarious collection from one of our most beloved and influential writers and performers. From the "Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman" to a hymn to the seductive properties of the pieby way of hand-grenade haikus machine-gun ballads and a meditation on the loss of Bonos leather pantsThe Luckiest Guy Alive collects stunning set pieces tried-and-tested audience favorites and brand new poems to show Cooper Clarke still effortlessly at the top of his game. Cooper Clarkes status as the "Emperor of Punk Poetry" is certainly confirmed here but so is his reputation as a brilliant versifier a poet of vicious wit and a razor-sharp social satirist. Effortlessly immediate and contemporary full of hard-won wisdom and expert blindsidings its easy to see why the good Doctor has continued to inspire several new generations of performers from Alex Turner to Plan B: The Luckiest Guy Alive shows one of the most compelling poets of the age on truly exceptional form.