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Collected Poems
Nov 6, 2025 3:10 AM

Author:Roger McGough

Collected Poems

Roger McGough is one of Britain's best loved poets and this collection 'charts [his] passage from youthful exuberance to the wry reflection of his later years. What remains the same throughout the 40 years is the poet's winning wit, accessibility and abiding readability' Independent ----------------------------------

'Time has confirmed ... that McGough's talent was much more substantial than many of his long-forgotten detractors suspected. If he was a pop poet it was not in any ephemeral sense. A shy extrovert ... he has given voice to poetry and found a voice of his own which is humourful, introspective, irreverent, easy on the ear, conversational. It is also memorable and enduring and fresh. Age has not withered [his lines] nor diminished their potency. Of how much modern poetry can you say that?' Sunday Herald

Reviews

He tells a story like an angel... Wonderful

—— Observer

A deeply satisfying book. I feel quite exceptionally inclined to read it all over again

—— Rosemary Stoyle , Literary Review

Shakespeare has completed a richly detailed, remarkably complete imaginary world

—— The Times

His lyricism is all his own and he raises his lovers to a plateau of passion where Greene never ventured

—— Sunday Telegraph

Wavery's story has a lyric simplicity and an emotional subtlety that are moving, involving and beautifully observed

—— Independent

These extraordinary diaries... should help bring about his richly deserved resuscitation

—— Spectator
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