"Evidently Chickentown" is a poem by the English performance poet John Cooper Clarke. The poem uses repeated profanity to convey a sense of futility and exasperation. Featured on Clarke's 1980 album Snap, Crackle & Bop, the realism of its lyrics is married with haunting, edgy arrangements. The poem bears a resemblance to an earlier work titled "Bloody Orkney", attributed to a naval officer during the Second World War. In 2009 Clarke said he "didn't consciously copy it. But I must have heard that poem, years ago. It's terrific."
"Evidently Chickentown" appears in Danny Boyle's 2001 film Strumpet, recited by Christopher Eccleston, in Jacques Audiard's 2012 film Rust and Bone, and at the end of "Stage 5", a 2007 episode of the American television drama The Sopranos. Clarke appears as himself reciting the poem in the 2007 British film Control, directed by Anton Corbijn.