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Roger McGough, ‘a trickster you can trust’, has done more than most to breathe life into poetry. part of the top-selling Mersey Sound with Brian Patten and Adrian Henri, he also had hits with The ...

Originally issued in Great Britain in 1986 under a different title, The Kingfisher Book of Funny Poems, edited by Roger McGough, illus. by Caroline Holden, now appears stateside. The hefty volume ...

Poet Roger McGough has led tributes to the writer Brian Patten following his death at the age of 79. Patten, who co-wrote The Mersey Sound anthology alongside McGough and Adrian Henri, “died ...

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