Roger McGough loves to list the megastars he met in his 60s heyday. This was when he was maintaining parallel careers: one as a poet appearing on learned discussion shows such as BBC2’s Joan ...

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 ...

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Why hasn't Roger McGough ever been made Poet Laureate? It's not as if he'd turn the job down: this year he was upgraded from an MBE to a CBE, despite a few rumblings from his more class-conscious ...