A brass ear trumpet in the Cavern. A lipstick stain on the Queen’s tiara. A breakfast cereal that can Morris Dance. A poem as loud as an Atom bomb. A lyric to accompany Gran’s snoring. A Surrealist ...

Former Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy has called him the 'patron saint of poetry’. He was one of the Liverpool poets along with Adrian Henri and Brian Patten, and the trio had a significant influence ...

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.

He burst onto the poetry scene in the 1960s alongside his fellow Liverpudlian poets Adrian Henri and Brian Patten.

As the poem tells it, when McCartney revealed the title “Hey Dude”, McGough “had to think on my feet, so I stood up and said ‘What about Hey Jude, you know, use a girls’ name?’” ...

McGough and Patten are joined for the occasion by Little Machine, a three-piece poetry band who have made a name by setting classic poems to music. Instead of appearing as a support act, the band is ...

He is also described as a 'force of nature – and poetry' and will visit the Maidenhead arts venue on Wednesday, July 3. Roger was one of the Liverpool poets, alongside Adrian Henri and Brian ...

87-year-old performer and broadcaster Roger McGough has published hundreds of poetry books and has been called ‘the patron saint of poetry’.

Even back when the 1967 landmark Penguin poetry collection The Mersey Sound turned McGough and his fellow Liverpool poets Brian Patten and the late Adrian Henri into something akin to pop stars, he ...

Taking her cue from the Mersey Poets, Adrian Henri, Roger McGough and Brian Patten, she was early in her career often defined as a “performance” poet, which was not always a compliment.

Eamon Carr has penned a book on boxing, so it isn't surprising that one of the classic books about the sport is on his list of touchstones ...

LITERARY TRIBUTE Saleem Peeradina (1944-2023) was a poet who taught as well as a teacher who wrote poetry Peeradina’s former student and associate, the writer Salil Tripathi, pays a tribute to ...