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The Collected Poems
1959 – 2024
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The collected works of the patron saint of poetry, Roger McGough. For sixty years, Roger McGough has thrilled and delighted generations of readers with his irreverent, intimate, and ever-original poetry. The Collected Poems presents the definitive selection of his very best work, from the Mersey-soaked sound...
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The collected works of the patron saint of poetry, Roger McGough.
For sixty years, Roger McGough has thrilled and delighted generations of readers with his irreverent, intimate, and ever-original poetry. The Collected Poems presents the definitive selection of his very best work, from the Mersey-soaked sound of his quintessential Sixties start, through to tender meditations on fatherhood and family, and on to political send-ups, pandemic playfulness, and brilliant new writing.
Here, then, is an unmatched store of warmth, wisdom, and feeling from Britain's most beloved poet.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780241681008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 27 June 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Viking
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 47.0mm
Width: 161.0mm
Height: 242.0mm
Weight: 956g
Pages: 752
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About the Author
Roger 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.
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