Mother, Brother, Lover: Selected Lyrics by Jarvis Cocker – review

Faber's collection of Jarvis Cocker's song lyrics act both as a sort of diary for the Pulp frontman and a record of late-20th-century British lifeJarvis Cocker knows something about audacious moves – he was the man, after all, who wiggled his arse in the general direction of Michael Jackson. But even shaking one's posterior at the King of Pop pales before having your song lyrics published by the same company that publishes Seamus Heaney, Philip Larkin and TS Eliot.Unlike his revered fellow Fab...

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