The Collected Poems - 1959 - 2024

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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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.

Product details

• Authors: Roger McGough
• Publisher: Viking
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.06.2024
• EAN: 9780241681008
• ISBN: 978-0-241-68100-8
• No. of pages: 752
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 241 mm x 48 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Liverpool, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / General, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), Modern and contemporary poetry / poems