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Aug 3, 2024 · This has been a tough year for McGough. “My sister died at the beginning of the year, the same day as Benjamin Zephaniah,” he tells me near the start of our conversation this July afternoon.
Roger Joseph McGough CBE FRSL (/ m ə ˈ ɡ ɒ f /; born 9 November 1937) is an English poet, performance poet, broadcaster, children's author and playwright. He presents the BBC Radio 4 programme Poetry Please, as well as performing his own poetry.
Jun 22, 2024 · His sister Brenda died just before Christmas. She also wrote poetry, and started taking creative-writing classes in middle-age. “Which is very brave at that age, she didn’t know any writers, didn’t know anybody.”
Aug 31, 2012 · I remember my sister saying to me once – very accusingly – that as soon as the next relative dies there will be another poem out there! In my autobiography ‘Said and Done’, my son said ...
A touching poem about McGough's lovable but ugly aunt. There are some sad moments because the elderly lady eventually died after McGough and his sister had grown up and moved away, only to send her cards at Christmas and birthdays.
Jul 15, 2024 · McGough’s father, who worked on the docks in Liverpool, didn’t live to see his son become a published poet, having died at 53. McGough imagines he would have been baffled by his choice of...
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Nov 1, 2017 · The Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, refers to Roger McGough as “the patron saint of poetry”.
