Roger McGough loves to list the megastars he met in his 60s heyday. ... I meet McGough in a cafe around the corner from his home in Barnes, ... a portrait of a romance in verse, was warmly ...

There are few voices more recognisable than McGough’s. His soft Liverpudlian tones have done more to popularise poetry than most of the poet laureates put together. UK News Website of the Year 2024 ...

POET Roger McGough yesterday published a World Cup rhyme and said: "If Sven would like me to read it to the team, he only has to ask." By. Tom Parry Special correspondent. 00:00, 5 May 2006; ...

Roger McGough may have found fame as a member of The Scaffold, providing the most efficacious vocals on their chart topper Lily The Pink in 1968. Published Sep 12, 2016.

Dive Into Summer With Radio 4 Extra continues with a Roger McGough double-bill based on his celebrated 1967 poetry collection Summer With Monika, which charts the progress of a love affair from ...

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, Liverpool, in 1937, the 66-year-old rose to prominence in ...

Roger McGough: The poet on 1960s Liverpool, Radio 4 and improving with age. McGough's latest volume, 'It Never Rains', is the 100th title he has published. Suzi Feay.

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

The Liverpool Saga is an 800 line poem written by people from across Merseyside to celebrate Liverpool's 800th birthday. Mersey poet Roger McGough wrote the opening and closing verses, taking his ...

LIVERPOOL poet Roger McGough has written a World Cup poem urging England to win - for David Beckham's sons Brooklyn, Romeo and Cruz.