McGough says it’s not unusual for him to revise his older poems “because a lot of things that seemed funny in the 1970s are not funny anymore. As I say in the foreword, anyone who wants the ...

Roger McGough is one of our most recognisable and best loved poets, broadcasters and playwrights. He talks to Chris Bond. HE’S a much-loved poet, broadcaster, children’s author and playwright ...

A new book, Collected Poems of Roger McGough 1959 to 2024, will be published in June. The Times said: "McGough is a true original and more than one generation would be much the poorer without him ...

Roger McGough’s poems convey the beauty of everyday language, says Richard Fitzpatrick. ... Both sides of his family, including his mother’s 12 McGarry siblings, were Irish Liverpudlian.

THE last time that poet Roger McGough, revered as 'the patron saint of poetry' by poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy, performed in Belfast, he got caught up in a disturbing episode.

WHEN Roger McGough read the results of his DNA swab test, he didn’t immediately think it was ripe material for a poem. The ancestry analysis confirmed what he had largely suspected. His roots ...

‘You don’t write poems for big sales, you don’t have a master. There are times in people’s lives where a poem just seems to be what they reach for – for a sense of truth.’ Roger McGough appears at ...

Roger McGough has had a busy day when Review speaks to him. He’d recorded an episode of Poetry Please, his Radio 4 show which celebrates poetry on various themes, with Michael Morpurgo ‘an old ...