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John Cooper Clarke: Punk and poetry

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The Politics of Poetry

The poet says he doesn't write poetry for any kind of therapy or to make anybody a better person, or to teach anybody any day. But popularity is important and that's the strength of what I do - so don't look for me in these poems all the time. "I've dragged this out from into a place, many places where it hasn't existed before"

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