Overview
A new collection from Britain's favourite poet Roger McGough is a poet of many voices. He can delight us with his puns, sadden us with his stories and occasionally tell us a few unwelcome truths. In this new collection he becomes in turn the Scottish hard man, the smug husband on his deathbed, the odious self-deceiver of the title-poem. He is equally 'At Home with the Surrealists' as he is on an underground station waiting for the train that never will never come. And throughout there is his characteristic wit as he faces the uncertainties and fears of aging - one of the most striking poems is a reworking of his famous 1960s poem, 'Let Me Die a Youngman's Death', this time entitled 'Not For Me a Youngman's Death'. Always inventive, the warmth and honesty of his voice reaffirms McGough as a true original.
Full Product Details
Author: Roger McGough
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Dimensions:
Width: 12.90cm
, Height: 0.70cm
, Length: 19.80cm
Weight: 0.090kg
ISBN: 9780241962275
ISBN 10: 0241962277
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 25 July 2013
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
The same blend of mischievous wordplay, subversion of cliche and distinctive sense of humour that makes him one of Britain's most popular poets * Spectator * As Far As I Know is self-effacing, unshowy, frequently funny, but with a quiet frankness * Scotsman * Moving poems on memory, love, aging, death and youth ... with his characteristic mix of wordplay and punning, wit, melancholy and self-deprecation * Independent *
Moving poems on memory, love, aging, death and youth ... with his characteristic mix of wordplay and punning, wit, melancholy and self-deprecation * Independent * As Far As I Know is self-effacing, unshowy, frequently funny, but with a quiet frankness * Scotsman * The same blend of mischievous wordplay, subversion of cliche and distinctive sense of humour that makes him one of Britain's most popular poets * Spectator *
Author Information
Roger McGough was a member of the group Scaffold in the 1960s when he contributed poems to the Penguin title The Mersey Sound, which has since sold over a million copies and is now available as a Penguin Classic. He has published many books of poems for children and adults, and both his Collected Poems (2004) and Selected Poems (2006) are also available in Penguin. He presents Poetry Please on Radio 4 and is President of the Poetry Society. He was honoured with the Freedom of the City of Liverpool in 2001 and with a CBE in 2005 for services to literature.
