‘Roger’s a bit nervous and sensitive,’ they would say. There was also this fear of the establishment, and poetry was seen as establishment in those days.” At school, McGough failed his ...

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 ...

They are all specially created for Poetry Pie. Roger McGough created our title poem (which is performed by James McAvoy) and many other illustrious contemporary poets have contributed to the ...

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 ...

So when Roger McGough, dubbed “the patron saint of poetry” by laureate Carol Ann Duffy, says he’s not a confident person it seems hard to believe. His production of The Misanthrope ...

Roger McGough is ... any other "patron saint of poetry" (in the poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy's words) would be hesitant to voice is one of the things that make McGough such gloriously honest ...

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 ...