‘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 ...

Roger McGough hosts BBC Radio 4's long-running ... including his latest, Poetry Pie - which contains 50 poems with themes ranging from food and animals to school and ghouls. Earlier this year ...

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 ...

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 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 ...