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Safety in Numbers

  • Imprint: Viking

  • ISBN: 9780241517352

  • Length: 144  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 200g

  • RRP: £9.99

Safety in Numbers

RELEASED 11/11/2021

'The patron saint of poetry' Carol Ann Duffy

'McGough is a true original and more than one generation would be much the poorer without him' The Times
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Roger McGough's poetry has captured the imagination of readers for decades. In his new collection, he explores subjects light and dark, relationships old and new, and the slippery nature of time in poems alight with humour, wit and wisdom. This is the finest poetry with the lightest touch from one of Britain's best-loved poets.
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'McGough has done for poetry what champagne does for weddings' Time out

'Memorable and enduring and fresh. Age has not withered [his lines] nor diminished their potency. Of how much modern poetry can you say that?' Sunday Herald, on joinedupwriting

'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, on joinedupwriting

  • Imprint: Viking

  • ISBN: 9780241517352

  • Length: 144  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 200g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • McGough is a true original and more than one generation would be much the poorer without him

    The Times

  • McGough has done for poetry what champagne does for weddings

    Time Out

  • Memorable and enduring and fresh. Age has not withered [his lines] nor diminished their potency. Of how much modern poetry can you say that?

    Sunday Herald, on ‘joinedupwriting’

  • 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, on ‘joinedupwriting’

  • The patron saint of poetry

    Carol Ann Duffy

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About the Author

Roger McGough

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.

Roger McGough

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