Book description
An updated selection of Roger McGough's finest, best-loved verse. The
complete span of McGough's writing, from the 1960s to the new
millennium, is represented.
'McGough's trademarks: the craft worn as lightly as the crown, the
jokes that are something more, the underlying heartache, the acute
sense of the way time slips away' Ian McMillan, Poetry Review 'McGough
has done for poetry what champagne does for weddings' Time Out
'The patron saint of poetry' (according to Carol Ann Duffy), Roger
McGough was born in Liverpool, the son of a docker, and attended Hull
University. In the '60s he had a brief flirtation with the pop world as
a member of the Scaffold. He has been one of Britain's most popular
poets for over 40 years, and has written many books for children and
adults. His
Selected Poems
, entitled
Blazing Fruit
, is a bestselling poetry title on the Penguin backlist. He lives in
Barnes, south-west London, with his wife and two youngest children.
