From left: humourist John Gorman, poet Roger McGough and Mike McGear (Rex) He argues that children are natural poets and then they have all the poetry ironed out of them. He gives the example of ...

Cardboard Roger’s lace shirt, oversized glasses and shaggy sideburns place him squarely in the late 1960s. Perhaps 1967, the year McGough’s poems appeared in The Mersey Sound, a slim paperback ...

The poet Roger McGough introduces and reads some of his best-known poems for children: The writer of this poem Uses a series wild and wonderful similes to describe the writer. The hearer of this ...

Roger McGough is leading a nationwide search for the UK’s next generation of poets. The presenter of BBC Radio 4 programme Poetry Please is launching a national poetry competition and has penned ...

A riddle dances through my mind as I walk through the tranquil, tree-lined, sunlit streets of Barnes in south-west London, towards Roger ... a typically playful poem from McGough's latest ...

LIVERPOOL poet Roger McGough is poetry royalty these days. His latest collection, It Never Rains, is an expanded edition of The State Of Poetry, the volume of short humorous verse he first ...

Roger McGough is leading a nationwide search for the UK’s next generation of poets. The presenter of BBC Radio 4 programme Poetry Please is launching a national poetry competition and has penned ...