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12April
Roger McGough: Alive And Gigging
Advance Price: £21
Join Roger McGough as he performs poems from his new collection, Collected Poems – a distillation of poems from over 40 books across sixty years.
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 Dylan, 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.
Further Details
Act's Website: https://www.rogermcgough.org/
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