‘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 ...

There are two Roger McGoughs. This is not a metaphor. When I turn up at his house in south-west London, the poet is beside himself. He has one arm cheerfully thrown round the shoulder of another ...

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 ...

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 ...

And he wouldn’t have understood the poetry at all. Mother This is a photograph ... of burnished copper’, and the teacher would say, McGough, you didn’t write this.’ The Mersey Sound ...