Roger McGough: I’ve rewritten poems – what seemed funny in the 70s isn’t anymore. Story by Sarah Carson • 10mo. Roger McGough loves to list the megastars he met in his 60s heyday.

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 ...

Roger McGough: the man who brought poetry down from the shelf and on to the streets 'Imagination is more important than information. If you’re being bullied at school, you can imagine your ...

Roger McGough has called on publishers to "take a chance" on poetry aimed at children, as National Poetry Day celebrates its 21st birthday. The day will be marked by Andrew Marr, Dominic West and ...

Britain's best-known contemporary poet, Roger McGough, talks to Nigel Farndale about poetry's growing popularity, McCartney's moth-eaten trousers - and not being made Laureate.

Roger McGough introduces and reads some of his best-known poems for children, including 'First day at school' and 'Didgeridoo'. One of a series of audio programmes profiling a different ...

Roger McGough calls on publishers to "take a chance" on poetry aimed at children, as National Poetry Day marks its 21st birthday. BBC Homepage.

Roger McGough has called on publishers to "take a chance" on poetry aimed at children, as National Poetry Day celebrates its 21st birthday. The day will be marked by Andrew Marr, Dominic West and ...