‘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 ...

McGough has been writing poetry for more than half ... on March 21, and the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, on May 11. Roger McGough: Sound and Vision Roger McGough was born in Liverpool ...

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 ...

Poet Roger McGough has criticised the lack of poetry books currently being published for children. As chair of the judges for 2015's Children's Poetry Award, McGough said they were "excited by 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 ...

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 ...