Who is John Cooper Clarke married to?

Evie Clarke
John Cooper Clarke/Spouse

‘” Clarke grew up a Catholic and still has faith. “People who believe in God are happier than those who don’t. I’ve never met a happy atheist.” He lives in Essex with his French wife of 22 years, Evie; they have a daughter at college.

How old is poet John Clarke?

72 years (January 25, 1949)
John Cooper Clarke/Age

What happened to John Clare?

When John Clare died of a stroke on May 20 1864, aged 70, he was almost a forgotten figure. For 23 years he had been confined in the Northampton General Lunatic Asylum, which he called “the purgatorial hell and French bastile of English liberty, where harmless people are trapped and tortured until they die”.

What is John Clare’s most famous poem?

‘First Love’. This poem, one of John Clare’s most widely anthologised, captures this dual nature of first love and the way in which it is a loss of something – namely, innocence – as well as a gaining of something new and special.

Why is John Cooper Clarke so skinny?

Raised in a flat, John was a sickly child. During a bout of tuberculosis he says he was treated with opioids which he believes led to his addiction struggles. An Elvis fan, he was style conscious as a teen – and his skinny trousers, wild hair and dark glasses made him look like a punk well before punk had arrived.

Does John Cooper Clarke have a false nose?

The first thing I notice is my nose. It’s too big and it isn’t even straight, thanks to a boxing injury incurred at school. The deputy head had decreed that all playground scuffles should be dignified by the Marquess of Queensberry and, given my facial topography, I naturally caught one on the hooter.

Is John Cooper Clarke a drug addict?

Clarke released Zip Style Method in 1982, but thereafter performed his live act less frequently, spending much of the 1980s mired in heroin addiction, living in a “domestic partnership” with singer and fellow addict Nico. He described this period of his life: “It was a feral existence.

Where is Clare buried?

Helpston
John Clare is buried in St. Botolph’s churchyard, Helpston, Cambridgeshire, England. In 1820, at the age of 26, Clare’s first collection of poetry Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery was published by John Taylor a London bookseller. It was an immediate success and Clare became known as the ‘peasant poet’.

Why was John Clare put in an asylum?

He was becoming a burden to Patty and his family, and in July 1837, on the recommendation of his publishing friend, John Taylor, Clare went of his own volition (accompanied by a friend of Taylor’s) to Dr Matthew Allen’s private asylum High Beach near Loughton, in Epping Forest.

Who is called peasant poet?

Clare was born in Helpston, 6 miles (10 km) to the north of the city of Peterborough. In his lifetime, the village was in the Soke of Peterborough in Northamptonshire and his memorial calls him “The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet”.

Who is known as the Peasant poet *?

John Clare
These lines are from the poem, “I am”, which, over the past sixty years, has been read and admired by more and more people. They were written by John Clare, known in his own time as ‘The Peasant Poet’.

Why does John Cooper wear dark glasses?