Description
An updated selection of Roger McGough’s finest, best-loved verse. The complete span of McGough’s writing, from the 1960s to the new millennium, is represented.
‘McGough’s trademarks: the craft worn as lightly as the crown, the jokes that are something more, the underlying heartache, the acute sense of the way time slips away’ Ian McMillan, Poetry Review ‘McGough has done for poetry what champagne does for weddings’ Time Out







At Thurgaton Church: A Poem with Drawings
The Handle of the Door
The Moon Before Morning
Penguin Book of Japanese Verse
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
Somewhere Else Entirely
Charlie Cook's Favourite Book
Steep Tea
Between Mountain and Sea: Poems from Assynt
Florilingua
Selected Poetry
Pretend You Don't Know Me
Clare Beaton's Bedtime Rhymes
The Museum of Disappearing Sounds
Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith
Let Us Compare Mythologies
Comic Poems
Hansel and Gretel
What Rhymes with Sneeze?
Book of Mercy
Strong in the Rain
Hallelujah for 50Ft Women
Counting Backwards
Short Days, Long Shadows
Notebook of a Return to My Native Land