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Slapstick

  • Imprint: Puffin

  • ISBN: 9780141325071

  • Length: 112  Pages

  • Dimensions: 234mm x 8mm x 153mm

  • Weight: 155g

  • RRP: £8.99

Slapstick

Wise, witty and thought-provoking poems by Roger McGough.

If Philosophy is the Why?

And Science is the How?

Then Poetry is the Wow!

In this stunning volume, you'll discover poems about poems, poems about life, poems about kangaroos and chameleons and caterpillars (though not in the same verse) and many more. This touching and thought-provoking collection will make you laugh, cry, or simply say 'Wow!'

  • Imprint: Puffin

  • ISBN: 9780141325071

  • Length: 112  Pages

  • Dimensions: 234mm x 8mm x 153mm

  • Weight: 155g

  • RRP: £8.99

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  • He is a true original and more than one generation would be poorer without him

    The Times

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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.

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