Dimensions
152 x 236 x 41mm
Roger McGough's writing career spans four glorious decades. Over forty years youthful exuberance ("McGough has done for British poetry what champagne does for weddings . . . " - Time Out) may have given way gradually to wry reflectiveness ("A poet for us all: laconic, ironic, at times Byronic." - Laurie Lee), but McGough's poems remain as potent as ever they were: witty, engaging, offbeat and utterly memorable.
This book gathers together for the first time in one volume all the poems (or nearly all - some have been put quietly to rest by the poet), and arranges them in such a way as to provide a portrait of a life seen through the prism of poetry.
"You can hear McGough's voice in these poems; not just his speaking voice, but his poetic voice, poking gentle fun at pretension and shining his poemy torch in dark corners . . . I'm a McGough fan, and I have to say that if it hadn't been for him and a few others like him, standing up in pubs and schools and universities all those years ago, then we would never had the poetry boom we've got now." - Ian McMillan
