Roger McGough, Esq, CBE, FRSL's Biography

Roger McGough, Esq, CBE, FRSL's Professional Career

Career

poet; fell of poetry Loughborough Univ 1973-75, writer in residence Western Aust Coll of Advanced Educn Perth 1986; pres The Poetry Soc 2012 (memb Exec Cncl 1989-93, vice-pres 1996); art installation Liverpool Doors (Museum of Liverpool) 2012; Signal Award 1984 and 1998, Cholmondeley Award 1998, Centre for Literacy in Primary Educn (CLPE) Poetry Award 2004 and 2005; hon prof Thames Valley Univ 1993, hon fell Liverpool John Moores Univ; Hon MA UC Northampton; Hon DLitt: Univ of Hull 2004, Univ of Roehampton 2006, Univ of Liverpool 2006, Open Univ 2009; Freeman City of Liverpool 2001; FRSL

Roger McGough, Esq, CBE, FRSL's Publications

Books and Publications

poetry: The Mersey Sound (with Adrian Henri and Brian Patten, 1967), In the Glassroom (1976), Holiday on Death Row (1979), Summer with Monika (1978), Waving at Trains (1982), Melting into the Foreground (1986), Selected Poems (1989), Blazing Fruit (1990), You At The Back (1991), Defying Gravity (1992), The Spotted Unicorn (1998), The Way Things Are (1999), Everyday Eclipses (2002), Wicked Poems (2002), Collected Poems (2003), Selected Poems (2006), That Awkward Age (2009), As Far As I Know (2012); wrote and appeared in Thames TV prog Kurt Mungo BP and Me (BAFTA Award, 1984), wrote poems for and presented Channel Four TV prog The Elements 1992 (Royal Television Award); for children: The Great Smile Robbery (1983), Sky in the Pie (1983), The Stowaways (1986), Noah's Ark (1986), Nailing the Shadow (1987), An Imaginary Menagerie (1988), Helen Highwater (1989), Counting by Numbers (1989), Pillow Talk (1990), The Lighthouse That Ran Away (1991), My Dad's a Fire-eater (1992), Another Custard Pie (1993), Lucky (1993), Stinkers Ahoy! (1995), The Magic Fountain (1995), Sporting Relations (1996), The Kite and Caitlin (1996), Bad, Bad Cats (1997), Until I Met Dudley (1997), Good Enough to Eat (2002), What on Earth (2002), Moonthief (2002), The Bees Knees (2003), All the Best (2003), Dotty Inventions (2004), Daniel and the Beast of Babylon (2004); Said and Done (autobiography, 2005), Slapstick (2008), Moliere's Tartuffe (adaptation, 2008), The Hypochondriac (adaptation, 2009), Mind the Gap (2010), The Misanthrope (adaptation, 2013)

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