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john cooper clarke was once dubbed "the punk poet". all his life, he has used words, rhythm and rhyme to find humour and truth in the chaos of everyday life. thanks to the internet, one of his poems has become a worldwide viral sensation. so, where does his word magic come from? john cooper clarke, welcome to hardtalk. hello, stephen. it's great to have you here, john. ijust read your memoir and one of the first sentences in it is this one — "all my life, all i ever wanted to be was a professional poet." now, i've heard of kids who want to be train drivers, professional footballers...

Of thing into account, it's just like a millstone round your neck. but what i always say is, you know, don't look for me. i don't see — i don't write poetry for any kind of therapy or to make anybody a better person or to teach anybody — it's not a didactic exercise. you know, i dragged this art form into a place where it might not have — many places where it hasn't existed before and that's the strength of what i do, you know what i mean? i actually — you know, popularity is very important about it to me so... but what you have to understand that is because i don't use it as a kind of...

Crosstalk. but what i was going to say — forgive me for talking over you, stephen — that when you read my poems, i need an angle on things — you've gotta get an angle on things — and in order to do that, what i do is very often, don't look for me in these poems all the time because most of the time — 80% of the time, they're works of imagination. i've heard a conversation somewhere, i'm inhabiting the mind that i imagine belongs to somebody else who's nothing like me. i can think of a million examples of that in my work, you know, where i'm adopt... if you're a poet, you're an adopte...

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