Roger McGough (The Collected Poems – Viking £25, 752pp) has been a beloved favourite of mine since he joined Adrian Henri and Brian Patten in the thrilling 1967 paperback The Mersey Sound.

If you bought a Beatles album in the Sixties, chances are you also bought The Mersey Sound, that best-selling collection of poems by the Liverpool poets Brian Patten, Roger McGough and Adrian Henri.

GALACTIC LOVE POEM, By Adrian Henri L.A. Times Archives March 17, 2002 12 AM PT From "Scanning the Century," edited by Peter Forbes (Penguin: 596 pp.,$22.95 paper) ...

Tonight At Noon by Adrian Henri; David McKay Co., Inc., 81 pp., $2.95 By Clyde Lindsay April 25, 1969 ...