Selected Poems

Selected Poems consists of work chosen by the poet himself from the Collected Poems, published by Penguin in 2004, together with a few new, previously unpublished poems. 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