The annual prize, run by The Moth, which celebrates its 15th birthday this month, has been judged in the past by Michael Morpurgo and Roger McGough, and shines a much-needed light on poetry ...

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 ...

This edition, however, contains works by the likes of Owen Sheers, Paul Muldoon, Sylvia Plath, William Blake, D. H. Lawrence, Kathleen Raine, Roger McGough, Wilfred Owen, Wendy Cope and John Clare ...

Touring his Alive and Gigging show, covering the Mersey-soaked sound of his quintessential 60s start, through to tender meditations on fatherhood and family, and on to political sendups, pandemic ...

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 ...

On the evening, prizes will be awarded by Roger McGough to the winners of the Shelley Memorial Project Poetry Competition 2023; this year the prizes will include the SMP Sussex Cup which will be ...

Roger McGough has published over 100 poetry books for adults and children and has been called ‘the patron saint of poetry’ and ‘the godfather of modern poetry’. He was one of the Liverpool poets, ...

Roger McGough, ‘a trickster you can trust’, has done more than most to breathe life into poetry. part of the top-selling Mersey Sound with Brian Patten and Adrian Henri, he also had hits with The ...

Roger McGough, ‘a trickster you can trust’, has done more than most to breathe life into poetry. part of the top-selling Mersey Sound with Brian Patten and Adrian Henri, he also had hits with The ...