Novel, poetry,

In a novel I read when I was 17 the main character, likely the writer's alter ego, meets the underground poet John Cooper Clarke in a pub by Kings Cross station London. Until this year when I reread the book and realised I could search on the guy I didn’t know Mr Clarke was a real person. Also judging from the high consumption of drugs and alcohol the poet is described to have in the work of fiction it’s surprising he’s still alive. Well, he’s actually the same age as Ozzy Osbourne, some people from that era survived.

 

 

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The book is about creative, self destructive, people living in squats and treating their mental problems with drugs, sex and music.