Luckiest Guy Alive by John Cooper Clarke Robert Herbert McClean ‘Here’s a debut collection with

‘Here’s a debut collection with a voice that is very much its own

- Rishi Dastidar

 Mercy burns with ruthless beauty

and urging into being both the living and the dead

constitute so many variations on the theme

Luckiest Guy Alive by John Cooper Clarke Robert Herbert McClean ‘Here’s a debut collection with'The godfather of British performance poetry' Daily Telegraph The Luckiest Guy Alive is the first new book of poetry from Dr John Cooper Clarke for several decades and 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 pie by way of hand grenade haikus, machine gun ballads and a meditation on the loss of