The pupils from Miriam Lord Primary School in Manningham - Laiba, Ameerah, Safiyya, and Fathimah - earned the opportunity after winning a national poetry performance competition linked to the ...

A group of Bradford eleven-year-olds have been invited to give a poetry performance - at the National Theatre.

The 87-year-old, who has written more than 100 poetry books for adults and children, will perform his latest show, Alive and Gigging, at Salisbury Playhouse on Wednesday, March 26. McGough will ...

This edition, however, contains works by the likes of Owen Sheers, Paul Muldoon, Sylvia Plath, William Blake, D. H. Lawrence, Kathleen Raine, Roger McGough, Wilfred Owen, Wendy Cope and John Clare ...

Opinion Radio review: Michael Sheen, Dylan Thomas and when poetry is like ‘dreaming awake’ Michael Sheen was the guest of Roger McGough on a wonderful Poetry Please on Radio 4 ...

You don’t get that in London.” It was while a student at Hull University in the 1950s that McGough initially began writing poems – “It was a private thing, I wasn’t out to show it to anyone else” – ...

By chance, last week I bought a delightful new book, the Collected Poems of Roger McGough, a treasure chest of the 85-year- old's work from 1959 to the present.

Touring his Alive and Gigging show, covering the Mersey-soaked sound of his quintessential 60s start, through to tender meditations on fatherhood and family, and on to political sendups, pandemic ...

Since then McGough has been a constant poetic presence, whether in the bookshops (he has published more than 40 books), on our radios (as presenter of Radio 4’s Poetry Please) and, for a short ...

Roger McGough, 13 August: There will be few performers in Edinburgh this August who can trace their festival heritage in the city as far back as McGough, who emerged from Liverpool’s beat poetry ...

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster follows Milo and Tock the Watchdog as they trek through the kingdoms of Dictionopolis and Digitopolis, meeting a wonderland of characters including a ...