The Bard of Salford, Dr John Cooper Clarke, will be launching his memoir I Wanna Be Yours, published by Pan Macmillan, on 15 October with a live online event at Vout-O-Reenee's in London. He will be joined by special guests, and there will be an audience Q&A. More details. The autobiography’s title comes from Cooper Clarke’s eponymous poem, which has featured on the GCSE English syllabus