Roger McGough was born in Liverpool. He presents the popular BBC Radio 4 programme Poetry Please, and is President of the Poetry Society. He has published many books of poems for adults and children, and following the success of two previous Moliere translations his new version of The Misanthrope debuts at the Liverpool Everyman in spring 2013 before a nationwide tour. He was awarded a CBE in 2005 for his services to literature.
The same blend of mischievous wordplay, subversion of cliche and distinctive sense of humour that makes him one of Britain's most popular poets * Spectator * As Far As I Know is self-effacing, unshowy, frequently funny, but with a quiet frankness * Scotsman * Moving poems on memory, love, aging, death and youth ... with his characteristic mix of wordplay and punning, wit, melancholy and self-deprecation * Independent *