80
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
80
By (Author) Roger McGough
Penguin Random House Children's UK
Puffin
15th October 2017
5th October 2017
United Kingdom
Classifications
Children
Fiction
821.914
Physical Properties
Paperback
144
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 8mm
106g
Description
Eighty of Roger McGough's favourite poems to celebrate his 80th birthday! There are eighty of Roger McGough's wonderful poems in this hugely enjoyable collection, gathered together into a new volume to celebrate Roger's 80th birthday! Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, but always inventive, the enormous variety of poems from this hugely popular poet will never cease to amaze and delight children of all ages.
Author Bio
Roger McGough was a member of the group Scaffold in the 1960s when he contributed poems to the Penguin title The Mersey Sound, which has since sold over a million copies and is now available as a Penguin Classic. He has published many books of poems for children and adults, and both his Collected Poems (2004) and Selected Poems (2006) are also available in Penguin. He presents Poetry Please on Radio 4 and is President of the Poetry Society. He was honoured with the Freedom of the City of Liverpool in 2001 and with a CBE in 2005 for services to literature.
