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    The man who would be funny

    May 01, 2022 2 minutes
    BY GREG DIXON

    I WANNA BE YOURS, by John Cooper Clarke (Picador, $39)

    he first time John Cooper Clarke died, he was in Auckland. And it wasn’t on stage. On tour in New Zealand, the British poet and self-declared bargain-basement Baudelaire had scored heroin in the city from a nurse and her dealer boyfriend, and the

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