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  • Published: 19 May 2022
  • ISBN: 9780241527603
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $22.99

Over to You!



A brand new collection for children from best-loved poet, writer and broadcaster, Roger McGough.

Just when you are ready to write your first poem, along come the words and cause mayhem! 'Poems can be like that sometimes,' says Roger McGough.
Here Roger's witty poems take you from school and home to places far and wide, and back again just in time to finish the poem you first started.

  • Published: 19 May 2022
  • ISBN: 9780241527603
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $22.99

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 Over to You!

Roger McGough is a true original and more than one generation would be much the poorer without him

Times Educational Supplement