Book description
Roger McGough is one of Britain's best loved poets and this
collection 'charts [his] passage from youthful exuberance to the wry
reflection of his later years. What remains the same throughout the 40
years is the poet's winning wit, accessibility and abiding
readability' Independent ----------------------------------
'Time has confirmed ... that McGough's talent was much more
substantial than many of his long-forgotten detractors suspected. If
he was a pop poet it was not in any ephemeral sense. A shy extrovert
... he has given voice to poetry and found a voice of his own which is
humourful, introspective, irreverent, easy on the ear, conversational.
It is also memorable and enduring and fresh. Age has not withered [his
lines] nor diminished their potency. Of how much modern poetry can you
say that?' Sunday Herald
'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.
