As Far As I Know
  • Published: 21 August 2013
  • ISBN: 9780241962275
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 96
  • RRP: $27.99

As Far As I Know

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21 Aug 2013
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A new collection from Britain's favourite poet

Roger McGough is a poet of many voices. He can delight us with his puns, sadden us with his stories and occasionally tell us a few unwelcome truths.
In this new collection he becomes in turn the Scottish hard man, the smug husband on his deathbed, the odious self-deceiver of the title-poem. He is equally 'At Home with the Surrealists' as he is on an underground station waiting for the train that never will never come. And throughout there is his characteristic wit as he faces the uncertainties and fears of aging - one of the most striking poems is a reworking of his famous 1960s poem, 'Let Me Die a Youngman's Death', this time entitled 'Not For Me a Youngman's Death'.
Always inventive, the warmth and honesty of his voice reaffirms McGough as a true original.
  • Published: 21 August 2013
  • ISBN: 9780241962275
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 96
  • RRP: $27.99
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About the author

Roger McGough

Date: 2004-03-15
Roger McGough was born in Liverpool in 1937. He has written over 50 books for both. He has won the Signal Award for Poetry twice, and the Cholmondeley Award. He has also won a BAFTA for his film work and a Royal Television Society Award for his TV series. He was awarded the freedom of the City of Liverpool in 2001 and his OBE in 1997. He presents Poetry Please and guest hosts Home Truths on Radio 4.

Roger McGough was born in Liverpool and educated at St Mary's College and the University of Hull. He has been a writer for many years, and his numerous collections have established him as one of the most distinctive and powerful voices in contemporary poetry. Among his most popular titles are Summer with Monika, Blazing Fruit and Defying Gravity, all published by Penguin, and for children An Imaginary Menagerie, Pillow Talk and Bad, Bad Cats. He is an international ambassador for poetry and in 1997 was awarded an OBE, and in 2004 he was awarded a CBE. His most recent books include All the Best and Slapstick and for adults,  Collected Poems and Selected Poems.

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Praise for As Far As I Know

The same blend of mischievous wordplay, subversion of cliche and distinctive sense of humour that makes him one of Britain's most popular poets

Spectator

As Far As I Know is self-effacing, unshowy, frequently funny, but with a quiet frankness

Scotsman

Moving poems on memory, love, aging, death and youth ... with his characteristic mix of wordplay and punning, wit, melancholy and self-deprecation

Independent