McGough presents Poetry Please on BBC Radio Four. Roger McGough, who has been made a CBE in the Queen's birthday honours, is one of the UK's most revered and popular poets. Born in Litherland, ...

Sheen was Roger McGough’s guest on Poetry Please, when his selection of poems was decidedly Welsh and wonderful. Poetry is like “dreaming awake”, he said.

A listing for the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe show Roger McGough: ... 'The patron saint of poetry' (Carol Ann Duffy). 'McGough has done for poetry what champagne does for weddings' (Time Out). Share this ...

Roger McGough: 65 Years of Poetry is at the Courtyard Theatre on Tuesday, August 13, at 5.45pm, as part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

The poet tells Fiona Sturges about the 60s Liverpool poetry scene, getting advice from Philip Larkin – and appearing on ‘Top of the Pops’ ...

McGough says it’s not unusual for him to revise his older poems “because a lot of things that seemed funny in the 1970s are not funny anymore. As I say in the foreword, anyone who wants the ...

Roger McGough, 13 August: There will be few performers in Edinburgh this August who can trace their festival heritage in the city as far back as McGough, who emerged from Liverpool’s beat poetry ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. – Who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks? Not that Alex McGough is old, but he is the fifth-oldest player on the Green Bay Packers’ rost ...

Roger McGough’s take on Molière’s farce is endearingly silly. Edward Hogg and Garmon Rhys in The Hypochondriac at Crucible Theatre, Sheffield.

Roger McGough’s take on Molière’s farce is endearingly silly Sending up the greed of doctors may seem rather lacking in solidarity in 2023 – but fear not, Roger McGough’s adaptation of ...

Molière’s Le Malade Imaginaire was one of three plays of his adapted by Roger McGough some ten or fifteen years ago for Liverpool Playhouse. It comes up bright and sparkling, in rhyming couplets, but ...

Tickets are £18.00 via Eventbrite- search ' A celebration of poetry with Roger McGough ' For students and unwaged the ticket price is £12.00, these can be purchased by contacting [email protected] The ...