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Roger McGough: Alive and Gigging
22 Feb 19:30
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From: £25.00
Join Roger McGough as he performs poems from his new collection, Collected Poems. This is a distillation of over 40 books across sixty years and will be the McGough bible for decades to come.
The ‘Patron Saint of Poetry’, Roger McGough is presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Poetry Please and President of the Poetry Society and has inspired thousands of young poets. 87 years old now and at that awkward age now between birth and death, he puts on a brave face and takes to the stage with a show featuring new poems as well as old favourites.
The new show takes audiences on a journey back to key moments of his life. McGough reflects on his Liverpool childhood during World War II, with memories and poems including The Full English, The Overall Winner and Learning to Read. Memories of his mum and dad are told through poems The Railing and What Does Your Father Do, and some are a throwback to the ’60s, namely The Beatles and Top of the Pops.
There will be laugh-out-loud poems about cats and dogs, the Bad Bad Cats from the CPL, and Mafia Cats, and about growing old, A Joy to be Old, A Cure for Ageing, which aptly round up the evening.
Copies of Roger McGough’s books will be available to buy on the night, and Roger will be signing books after the show.
Important information
Ticket prices: £25
Running time: 1 hour 30 minutes with interval
Available to book:
25 November at 10 am – Ambassadors, Supporters, Gold Friends and Corporates
27 November at 10 am – Friends and Best Friends
29 November at 10 am – General
Concessions:
Friends – 5% off
Ambassadors, Supporters, Best Friends and Gold Friends – 10% off
U26 – £20
There will be a book signing after the show in the foyer
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Reviews
“McGough has done for poetry what champagne does for weddings.”
Time Out“McGough is a true original and more than one generation would be much the poorer without him.”
The Times“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.”
Poetry Review
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