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 ...

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.

Roger McGough hosts BBC Radio 4's long-running ... Earlier this year, he criticised the lack of poetry books "being published for children and young people". So what advice does McGough have ...

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 ...

Roger McGough was 53 and on his second marriage ... It has sold more than a million copies since, and he has written a further 50 books of poetry. His flirtation with pop allowed him to hang ...

Tony Mitton fights off competition from a starry shortlist to win UK's only prize for published children's poetry Poet hopes ... Alison Steadman, Roger McGough and Jonathan Pryce remember how ...

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 ...

chortles Roger McGough, instantly recognisable both ... you were always wary of showing off.” For McGough poetry was something secretive, “a way of coping, that esprit d’escalier thing.

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." ...

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 ...

Roger McGough has called on publishers to "take ... Earlier this year, he criticised the lack of poetry books "being published for children and young people". So what advice does McGough have ...