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Roger McGough

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I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off.


— Roger McGough


#good #i #know #me #off

I wish the word whimsical wasn't used now.


— Roger McGough


#i wish #now #used #whimsical #wish

I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems.


— Roger McGough


#computer #i #many #poems #switching

If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision.


— Roger McGough


#decision #i #indecisive

People can put their best poems straight onto the web.


— Roger McGough


#onto #people #poems #put #straight

We shouldn't have got married, really. Shouldn't have got married. Too young. Not ready for it.


— Roger McGough


#married #ready #really #too #young

Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it.


— Roger McGough


#anyone #doing #poetry #really #show

You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals.


— Roger McGough


#dress #guilt #high #ideals #put






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The form of some of his verse it has been claimed has been influenced by his experience of writing song lyrics. The Hypochondriac (The Imaginary Invalid) was staged at the Liverpool Playhouse in July 2009. Now Press Return incorporated several novel themes including user-defined elements to the poem lines which changed their order (and meaning) every few seconds and text which wrote itself in a spiral around the screen.

Roger Joseph McGough CBE FRSL (born 9 November 1937) is an English performance poet broadcaster children's author and playwright. He is an honorary fellow of Liverpool John Moores University and President of the Poetry Society.

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