Roger McGough loves to list the megastars he met ... becoming one of the biggest-selling poetry books of all time. Thanks to The Beatles, Liverpool was the place to be back then.

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 ...

McGough gives you the idea that poetry is all about saving souls ... 50th anniversary of the publication of the book The Mersey Sound, written by Roger McGough Brian Patten and Adrian Henri ...

There are two Roger McGoughs ... one night buzzing with enthusiasm for the local poetry scene. As we’re meeting on World Poetry Day, I ask McGough – who has hosted Poetry Please on Radio ...

And he wouldn’t have understood the poetry at all ... and the teacher would say, McGough, you didn’t write this.’ The Mersey Sound When Penguin Books brought Adrian Henri, Brian Patten ...

Poet Roger McGough is making a meal of his ... a wide audience of youngsters who may not read books. Meal times needn't be fractious, nor poetry boring. Poetry on plates? Eat up and read on." ...

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 ...

LIVERPOOL poet Roger McGough is poetry royalty these days. His latest collection, It Never Rains, is an expanded edition of The State Of Poetry, the volume of short humorous verse he first ...

Roger McGough has been announced as the new president of the Poetry Society ... McGough has written or appeared in over 50 books and is a regular presence on the radio as a presenter of BBC ...

Roger McGough, who has published 50 books of adult and children's poetry, has struck up a partnership with the three-piece band which specialises in setting classic poetry to contemporary music.

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 ...