Description
Book SynopsisRoger McGough was a member of the group Scaffold in the 1960s when he contributed poems to the Penguin title
The Mersey Sound, which has since sold over a million copies and is now available as a Penguin Classic. He has published many books of poems for children and adults, and both his
Collected Poems (2004) and
Selected Poems (2006) are also available in Penguin. He presents
Poetry Please on Radio 4 and is President of the Poetry Society. He was honoured with the Freedom of the City of Liverpool in 2001 and with a CBE in 2005 for services to literature.
Trade ReviewThe same blend of mischievous wordplay, subversion of cliche and distinctive sense of humour that makes him one of Britain's most popular poets * Spectator *
As Far As I Know is self-effacing, unshowy, frequently funny, but with a quiet frankness * Scotsman *
Moving poems on memory, love, aging, death and youth ... with his characteristic mix of wordplay and punning, wit, melancholy and self-deprecation * Independent *
