A memorial service at Bradford Royal Infirmary's Listening for Life Centre will be held for families who have lost a baby or child.

"I think it's just a great example of a simple poem with one meaning on the surface and a load of deeper context beneath. Roger McGough is brilliant like that, and I highly recommend this book." ...

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. Dylan Thomas’s poetry was “in ...

‘Never meet your heroes,’ said Stephen Fry in a video introduction ... The most powerful tribute came from poet Roger McGough. who dubbed Innes ‘the urbane spaceman’ before offering a moving and ...

to maintain his own interest.' By chance, last week I bought a delightful new book, the Collected Poems of Roger McGough, a treasure chest of the 85-year- old's work from 1959 to the present.

Aged 87, he is a force of nature - and poetry. Is poetry the new rock'n'roll? ...It always was! 'The patron saint of poetry' (Carol Ann Duffy). 'McGough has done for poetry what champagne does for ...

On this occasion I really want to believe him. 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.

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

Roger McGough came to fame in the 1960s ... The interview also includes examples of McGough's whimsical poetry. The Scaffold's chart hits include Thank U Very Much, Liverpool Lou and a raucous ...

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 ...