Roger McGough loves to list the megastars he met in his 60s heyday. This was when he was maintaining parallel careers: one as a poet appearing on learned discussion shows such as BBC2’s Joan ...

From left: humourist John Gorman, poet Roger McGough and Mike McGear (Rex) He argues that children are natural poets and then they have all the poetry ironed out of them. He gives the example of ...

Roger McGough has called on publishers to "take a chance" on poetry aimed at children, as National Poetry Day celebrates its 21st birthday. The day will be marked by Andrew Marr, Dominic West and ...