3 Review(s)

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. Collected Poems 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.