Roger McGough
Auteur van Penguin Modern Poets 10: The Mersey Sound: Adrian Henri, Roger McGough, Brian Patten
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Penguin Modern Poets 10: The Mersey Sound: Adrian Henri, Roger McGough, Brian Patten (1967) — Poet — 366 exemplaren
80: Poems by Roger McGough 1 exemplaar
The Nation's Favourite Poems of Celebration 1 exemplaar
Allsorts; The Sentinel; 1 exemplaar
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- 1937-11-09
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- male
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- UK
- Geboorteplaats
- Litherland, Liverpool, England, UK
- Woonplaatsen
- Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
- Opleiding
- University of Hull
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- poet
- Organisaties
- Poetry Society
BBC Radio 4 - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Order of the British Empire (Officer | Commander)
Action for Children's Arts (J. M. Barrie Award|2009) - Korte biografie
- Rose to fame with other Liverpool poets (Brian Pattern & Aidan Henri) in the 1960's & 70's. Notably wrote the lyrics to 1968 No. 1 single 'Lily the Pink' and lots of the dialogue to The Beatles film 'Yellow Submarine'. He publishes poetry for children and adults.
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McGough is a verbal magician and true original. His poems are unusually entertaining but the surface charm and wit often mask a sober and sobering view of life. This new volume features poems about lockdown, poems about environmental disaster, poems about poetry and vintage McGough poems reimagined for contemporary times.
Funny and thoughtful in equal measure.
Funny and thoughtful in equal measure.
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:
What is it about today that makes the definition of poetry such a miserable snobbish thing? If there is any artistic form that should be readily intelligible and accessible it is poetry: historically, after all, it existed as an important form of communication.
For the rest of a rather long post on the wonderful McGough's delightful poetry, go here.
http://alittleteaalittlechat.wordpress.com/2013/10/06/roger-mcgoughs-collected-p...
Honestly. Go there and take a look even if you 'don't like poetry'. I want to change your mind.… (meer)
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 totally omitted. There's been a lot of that," he says. "Those years when Motion was editor of Poetry Review, and Craig Raine was poetry editor at Faber ... I felt we were always in the position of having to defend ourselves. We got cheesed off at being referred to as small-town Mantovanis, or the pop brigade. I suppose because we didn't do English at university, or because the poetry I was writing could be appreciated by my mother or my aunties. It came out of a sort of naivety." There is naivety, too, though of a characteristically charming sort, in his stated belief in "the brotherhood of poetry. I felt, with my first poem, that I had entered this brotherhood. Which turned out not to be the case."
What is it about today that makes the definition of poetry such a miserable snobbish thing? If there is any artistic form that should be readily intelligible and accessible it is poetry: historically, after all, it existed as an important form of communication.
For the rest of a rather long post on the wonderful McGough's delightful poetry, go here.
http://alittleteaalittlechat.wordpress.com/2013/10/06/roger-mcgoughs-collected-p...
Honestly. Go there and take a look even if you 'don't like poetry'. I want to change your mind.… (meer)
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:
What is it about today that makes the definition of poetry such a miserable snobbish thing? If there is any artistic form that should be readily intelligible and accessible it is poetry: historically, after all, it existed as an important form of communication.
For the rest of a rather long post on the wonderful McGough's delightful poetry, go here.
http://alittleteaalittlechat.wordpress.com/2013/10/06/roger-mcgoughs-collected-p...
Honestly. Go there and take a look even if you 'don't like poetry'. I want to change your mind.… (meer)
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 totally omitted. There's been a lot of that," he says. "Those years when Motion was editor of Poetry Review, and Craig Raine was poetry editor at Faber ... I felt we were always in the position of having to defend ourselves. We got cheesed off at being referred to as small-town Mantovanis, or the pop brigade. I suppose because we didn't do English at university, or because the poetry I was writing could be appreciated by my mother or my aunties. It came out of a sort of naivety." There is naivety, too, though of a characteristically charming sort, in his stated belief in "the brotherhood of poetry. I felt, with my first poem, that I had entered this brotherhood. Which turned out not to be the case."
What is it about today that makes the definition of poetry such a miserable snobbish thing? If there is any artistic form that should be readily intelligible and accessible it is poetry: historically, after all, it existed as an important form of communication.
For the rest of a rather long post on the wonderful McGough's delightful poetry, go here.
http://alittleteaalittlechat.wordpress.com/2013/10/06/roger-mcgoughs-collected-p...
Honestly. Go there and take a look even if you 'don't like poetry'. I want to change your mind.… (meer)
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