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Œuvres de Roger McGough

Collected Poems (2003) 115 exemplaires
The State of Poetry (2005) 103 exemplaires
The Kingfisher Book of Comic Verse (1703) 96 exemplaires
New Volume (1983) 64 exemplaires
Poetry Please (2013) 54 exemplaires
You Tell Me (Puffin Books) (1979) 46 exemplaires
Defying Gravity (1993) 46 exemplaires
Sky in the Pie (Puffin Books) (1983) 45 exemplaires
Until I Met Dudley (1997) 42 exemplaires
Said and Done (2005) 41 exemplaires
After the Merrymaking (1725) 40 exemplaires
Selected Poems (1989) 39 exemplaires
Bad, Bad Cats (1636) 38 exemplaires
Summer with Monika (1978) 37 exemplaires
Sensational! (2004) 36 exemplaires
That Awkward Age (2009) 35 exemplaires
Watchwords (1969) 35 exemplaires
Sporting Relations (1974) 31 exemplaires
The Way Things Are (1999) 30 exemplaires
Gig (1973) 29 exemplaires
Wicked Poems (2002) 26 exemplaires
Nailing the Shadow (Puffin Books) (1987) 21 exemplaires
Moonthief (2003) 19 exemplaires
What on Earth Can It Be? (2002) 19 exemplaires
The Kingfisher Book of Funny Poems (2002) 19 exemplaires
Everyday Eclipses (2002) 19 exemplaires
It Never Rains (2014) 14 exemplaires
More Funny Stories (Red Hot Reads) (2003) 14 exemplaires
Comic Stories (Red Hot Reads) (2005) 12 exemplaires
As Far As I Know (2012) 12 exemplaires
The lighthouse that ran away (1990) 11 exemplaires
Mind the Gap (2011) 10 exemplaires
The Spotted Unicorn (1998) 10 exemplaires
My Oxford ABC Picture Rhyme Book (1994) 10 exemplaires
The Kite and Caitlin (1996) 9 exemplaires
Happy Poems (2018) 8 exemplaires
Poetry Pie (Puffin poetry) (2015) 7 exemplaires
joinedupwriting (2019) 7 exemplaires
The Big Book of Little Poems (1999) 7 exemplaires
Slapstick : poems (2008) 6 exemplaires
My Oxford 123 Number Rhyme Book (1994) 6 exemplaires
The Bee's Knees (Puffin Poetry) (2003) 6 exemplaires
Noah's Ark (1986) 5 exemplaires
Another Custard Pie (1993) 4 exemplaires
You Have Been Warned! (2008) 3 exemplaires
Safety in Numbers (2021) 3 exemplaires
Money-Go-Round (2020) 3 exemplaires
I Never Liked Wednesdays (2015) 3 exemplaires
Mr Noselighter (1976) 2 exemplaires
The Magic Fountain (1995) 2 exemplaires
If Only We Had a Helicopter (2015) 1 exemplaire
The Bridport Prize 2015 (2015) 1 exemplaire
Unlucky for Some (1981) 1 exemplaire
Stinkers Ahoy (1996) 1 exemplaire
Favourite Funny Stories (2003) 1 exemplaire
Daniel and the Beast of Babylon (2004) 1 exemplaire
Horizons (1971) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire

Oeuvres associées

The Nation's Favourite Poems (1996) — Contributeur, quelques éditions626 exemplaires
The Pleasure of Reading (1992) — Contributeur — 188 exemplaires
British Poetry Since 1945 (1970) — Contributeur, quelques éditions167 exemplaires
Emergency Kit (1996) — Contributeur, quelques éditions109 exemplaires
The Puffin Book of Utterly Brilliant Poetry (1998) — Contributeur — 97 exemplaires
The Poetry Cure (2005) — Contributeur — 19 exemplaires
Another Day on Your Foot and I Would Have Died (Poetry Collection) (1996) — Contributeur — 13 exemplaires
SF Inventing the Future (1972) — Contributeur — 11 exemplaires
Bear Stories (2002) — Reader — 9 exemplaires
Hundreds and Hundreds (1984) — Contributeur — 8 exemplaires
Laurie Lee: A Many-coated Man (1998) — Contributeur — 5 exemplaires

Étiqueté

Partage des connaissances

Date de naissance
1937-11-09
Sexe
male
Nationalité
UK
Lieu de naissance
Litherland, Liverpool, England, UK
Lieux de résidence
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
Études
University of Hull
Professions
poet
Organisations
Poetry Society
BBC Radio 4
Prix et distinctions
Order of the British Empire (Officer | Commander)
Action for Children's Arts (J. M. Barrie Award|2009)
Courte biographie
Rose to fame with other Liverpool poets (Brian Pattern & Aidan Henri) in the 1960's & 70's. Notably wrote the lyrics to 1968 No. 1 single 'Lily the Pink' and lots of the dialogue to The Beatles film 'Yellow Submarine'. He publishes poetry for children and adults.

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McGough is a verbal magician and true original. His poems are unusually entertaining but the surface charm and wit often mask a sober and sobering view of life. This new volume features poems about lockdown, poems about environmental disaster, poems about poetry and vintage McGough poems reimagined for contemporary times.

Funny and thoughtful in equal measure.
 
Signalé
gpower61 | Apr 20, 2022 |
Rimbaud once said 'I am unknown; what does that matter? All poets are brothers.'

Roger McGough, I gather, once believed that, but it didn't take long to be disavowed of the notion. He talked about it in a Guardian interview:

"When Motion and Morrison edited the Penguin Book of British Poetry, we were totally omitted. There's been a lot of that," he says. "Those years when Motion was editor of Poetry Review, and Craig Raine was poetry editor at Faber ... I felt we were always in the position of having to defend ourselves. We got cheesed off at being referred to as small-town Mantovanis, or the pop brigade. I suppose because we didn't do English at university, or because the poetry I was writing could be appreciated by my mother or my aunties. It came out of a sort of naivety." There is naivety, too, though of a characteristically charming sort, in his stated belief in "the brotherhood of poetry. I felt, with my first poem, that I had entered this brotherhood. Which turned out not to be the case."


What is it about today that makes the definition of poetry such a miserable snobbish thing? If there is any artistic form that should be readily intelligible and accessible it is poetry: historically, after all, it existed as an important form of communication.

For the rest of a rather long post on the wonderful McGough's delightful poetry, go here.

http://alittleteaalittlechat.wordpress.com/2013/10/06/roger-mcgoughs-collected-p...

Honestly. Go there and take a look even if you 'don't like poetry'. I want to change your mind.
… (plus d'informations)
 
Signalé
bringbackbooks | 4 autres critiques | Jun 16, 2020 |
Rimbaud once said 'I am unknown; what does that matter? All poets are brothers.'

Roger McGough, I gather, once believed that, but it didn't take long to be disavowed of the notion. He talked about it in a Guardian interview:

"When Motion and Morrison edited the Penguin Book of British Poetry, we were totally omitted. There's been a lot of that," he says. "Those years when Motion was editor of Poetry Review, and Craig Raine was poetry editor at Faber ... I felt we were always in the position of having to defend ourselves. We got cheesed off at being referred to as small-town Mantovanis, or the pop brigade. I suppose because we didn't do English at university, or because the poetry I was writing could be appreciated by my mother or my aunties. It came out of a sort of naivety." There is naivety, too, though of a characteristically charming sort, in his stated belief in "the brotherhood of poetry. I felt, with my first poem, that I had entered this brotherhood. Which turned out not to be the case."


What is it about today that makes the definition of poetry such a miserable snobbish thing? If there is any artistic form that should be readily intelligible and accessible it is poetry: historically, after all, it existed as an important form of communication.

For the rest of a rather long post on the wonderful McGough's delightful poetry, go here.

http://alittleteaalittlechat.wordpress.com/2013/10/06/roger-mcgoughs-collected-p...

Honestly. Go there and take a look even if you 'don't like poetry'. I want to change your mind.
… (plus d'informations)
 
Signalé
bringbackbooks | 4 autres critiques | Jun 16, 2020 |

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Œuvres
95
Aussi par
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Membres
2,284
Popularité
#11,240
Évaluation
3.9
Critiques
36
ISBN
206
Langues
2
Favoris
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