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As Far as I Know

Roger McGough

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English
Penguin
21 August 2013
A new collection from Britain's favourite poet

Roger McGough is a poet of many voices. He can delight us with his puns, sadden us with his stories and occasionally tell us a few unwelcome truths. In this new collection he becomes in turn the Scottish hard man, the smug husband on his deathbed, the odious self-deceiver of the title-poem. He is equally 'At Home with the Surrealists' as he is on an underground station waiting for the train that never will never come. And throughout there is his characteristic wit as he faces the uncertainties and fears of aging - one of the most striking poems is a reworking of his famous 1960s poem, 'Let Me Die a Youngman's Death',

this time entitled 'Not For Me a Youngman's Death'. Always inventive, the warmth and honesty of his voice reaffirms McGough as a true original.
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Imprint:   Penguin
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 7mm
Weight:   90g
ISBN:   9780241962275
ISBN 10:   0241962277
Pages:   96
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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.

Reviews for As Far as I Know

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 *


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