Celebrating National Poetry Day, the incomparable punk bard John Cooper Clarke will be live by satellite at the Exeter Picturehouse on Thursday 3 October at 6.15, for a screening of a new film about his life, Evidently... John Cooper Clarke.

In a one-off live broadcast from Newcastle’s Tyneside Cinema, the poet will answer questions in interview and present Evidently... John Cooper Clarke - Live!, a film about his life including contributions from Bill Bailey, Steve Coogan and the Arctic Monkeys.

The punk poet and Bard of Salford has been writing and performing his own brand of hysterically funny, scathingly political and often deeply moving poetry for four decades.

He started out in the mid-1970s in smoke-filled and often hostile working men’s clubs, but was discovered by a new audience with the emerging Manchester music scene, finding himself billed alongside bands such as Sex Pistols, Buzzcocks, The Clash and Joy Division. Forty-odd years later he is still playing sold-out shows nationwide.

Tickets: £15, members £12, concessions £13.

Book in person at the Exeter Picturehouse, on line at www.picturehouses.co.uk or by calling the box office on 0871 902 5730.

For further information ring 01392 285960.