FAMILY READING: ROGER MCGOUGH
The gifted young winners of our annual Aldeburgh Young Poets Competition read their marvellous poems. They are followed by the one and only Roger McGough who's been delighting audiences and readers for over four decades with his unique blend of humour and heart.
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Roger McGough was born in Liverpool in 1937 and is one of the nation’s best loved poets for adults and children. In the 1960s he had a number one hit with the Scaffold and published the top selling The Mersey Sound with Brian Patten and Adrian Henri. A further fifteen collections for adults and over thirty books for children have followed, including Collected Poems (2003) and his most recent That Awkward Age (2009). Awarded an OBE in 1997, he is host of BBC Radio 4’s Poetry Please. more…
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