'The patron saint of poetry' Carol Ann Duffy

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 sendups, pandemic playfulness and brilliant new writing. Here, then, is an unmatched store of warmth, wisdom and feeling from Britain's most beloved poet.

'McGough has done for poetry what champagne does for weddings' Time Out

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.

Reviews
This triumphant anthology stuns...If you've only room for one book when you go on holiday this summer, take this * The Guardian *
McGough is a true original and more than one generation would be much the poorer without him * The Times *
McGough has done for poetry what champagne does for weddings * Time Out *
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 * Poetry Review *
The patron saint of poetry -- Carol Ann Duffy



Book Information
ISBN 9780241681008
Author Roger McGough
Format Hardback
Page Count 752
Imprint Viking
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Weight(grams) 962g
Dimensions(mm) 241mm * 161mm * 48mm