Roger McGough is truly a national treasure and this collection of disparate poems is beautifully crafted. Young to old, good to know there is always the capacity for awkwardness. McGough helps us to see the funny side of the roller-coaster that is the human condition.
I've so far found this infallible for amusing young readers.
bookshelves: autumn-2011, poetry, period-piece, published-1978, radio-4x Read from September 21 to 22, 2011 Monica, who's been eating my porridge while I've been awayMy Quaker Oats are nearly gone, what've you got to say?Someone's been at my whisky and taken the Jaguar keysAnd Monica, another t...
This man is an entertainer, not a poet.
Monica, who's been eating my porridge while I've been awayMy Quaker Oats are nearly gone, what've you got to say?Someone's been at my whisky and taken the Jaguar keysAnd Monica, another thing, who's trousers are these?Roger McGough's dramatisation of his magical poem of love in the 1960s. Stars Mark...
Rimbaud once said 'I am unknown; what does that matter? All poets are brothers.' Roger McGough, I gather, once believed that, but it didn't take long to be disavowed of the notion. He talked about it in a Guardian interview:"When Motion and Morrison edited the Penguin Book of British Poetry, we were...
If you squint a little, you see that the cover says this is "The Story Behind the Book by Roger McGough".I reread this "picture book" again this week and I am as amused as when I picked it up in a British bookstore about 15 years ago. The messy black and white drawings are are little ... well messy,...
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