Here's a little article that supposedly ran in the Q Magazine at sometime in the recent past... Thanks to Darren for sending it to me.

    Intimate

    Poetry Olympics - the superjam: and on "words", Patti Smith, Damon Albarn, Ray Davies, Kylie Minogue, Nerys Hughes...

    London Royal Albert Hall
    July 7, 1996

    ........Albarn is followed by two poets with an equally satrical view of Little England: John Hegley, who spices his dog-fixated verse with an O.M.D.-type dance, and punk poet John Cooper Clarke, who looks exactly the same as he did in 1978 - stick-thin legs, shades, spiky hair and all. "I am from Manchester," he announces, "where to be negative is to be real.".......

    (Lucy O'Brien)


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