John Cooper Clarke " review
Palladium, LondonThe late Factory Records boss Anthony H Wilson was fond of opining that Shaun Ryder was the literary equal of Keats. By this lofty criterion, Salford's rival poet laureate, John Cooper Clarke, must be presumed to be operating at a rarefied altitude just above Shakespeare.Pencil-thin, in shades beneath a riot of backcombed black hair, Clarke looks identical to his punk-poet heyday, but after years in …