This is the mother who one day chose to smother the child with kisses, and blows and blows and blows.
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Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there were other poets, you became part of a scene. Even though they were very different writers, it made it easier because you were together.
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Birth: | 9th November, 1937 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Broadcaster, Poet, Writer |
Roger Joseph McGough CBE FRSL is an English performance poet, broadcaster, children's author and playwright. He presents the BBC Radio 4 programme Poetry Please, as well as performing his own poetry. He is a Fellow of Liverpool John Moores University and President of the Poetry Society.
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