The Collected Poems
  • Published: 24 September 2024
  • ISBN: 9780241681008
  • Imprint: Viking
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 752
  • RRP: $65.00
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The Collected Poems

1959 – 2024

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24 Sep 2024
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The collected works of 'the patron saint of poetry', Roger McGough

For sixty years, Roger McGough has thrilled and delighted generations of readers with his irreverent, intimate and ever-original poetry. The Collected Poems presents the definitive selection of his very best work, from the Mersey-soaked sound of his quintessential Sixties start, through to tender meditations on fatherhood and family, and on to political sendups, pandemic playfulness and brilliant new writing. Here, then, is an unmatched store of warmth, wisdom and feeling from Britain's most beloved poet.
  • Published: 24 September 2024
  • ISBN: 9780241681008
  • Imprint: Viking
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 752
  • RRP: $65.00
Categories:

About the author

Roger McGough

Date: 2004-03-15
Roger McGough was born in Liverpool in 1937. He has written over 50 books for both. He has won the Signal Award for Poetry twice, and the Cholmondeley Award. He has also won a BAFTA for his film work and a Royal Television Society Award for his TV series. He was awarded the freedom of the City of Liverpool in 2001 and his OBE in 1997. He presents Poetry Please and guest hosts Home Truths on Radio 4.

Roger McGough was born in Liverpool and educated at St Mary's College and the University of Hull. He has been a writer for many years, and his numerous collections have established him as one of the most distinctive and powerful voices in contemporary poetry. Among his most popular titles are Summer with Monika, Blazing Fruit and Defying Gravity, all published by Penguin, and for children An Imaginary Menagerie, Pillow Talk and Bad, Bad Cats. He is an international ambassador for poetry and in 1997 was awarded an OBE, and in 2004 he was awarded a CBE. His most recent books include All the Best and Slapstick and for adults,  Collected Poems and Selected Poems.

Also by Roger McGough

Over to You!
Safety in Numbers
joinedupwriting
80
Summer with Monika
Poetry Pie
It Never Rains
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Praise for The Collected Poems

McGough is a true original and more than one generation would be much the poorer without him

The Times

McGough has done for poetry what champagne does for weddings

Time Out

McGough's trademarks: the craft worn as lightly as the crown, the jokes that are something more, the underlying heartache, the acute sense of the way time slips away

Poetry Review

The patron saint of poetry

Carol Ann Duffy

This triumphant anthology stuns…If you’ve only room for one book when you go on holiday this summer, take this

The Guardian