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 ...

Poet Roger McGough is making a meal of his latest book by serving it up on a series of plates. The 75-year-old writer has created teatime tales for children aged three to 10 which have been ...

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. Under a bower of ...

Poet Roger McGough is making a meal of his latest book by serving it up on a series of plates. The 75-year-old writer has created teatime tales for children aged three to 10 which have been ...

McGough’s pop career is behind him now, but he remains, as Carol Ann Duffy once put it, Britain’s “patron saint of poetry”, with mroe than 100 books to his name.

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...