Q & A: ROGER MCGOUGH
The national treasure and ‘trickster you can trust’ explores overnight fame with Lily the Pink, encounters with Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Marlon Brando and Allen Ginsberg, and his pioneering role as a popular poet for over forty years. Prompted by The Poetry Trust’s own Dean Parkin.
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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