- Published: 1 February 2022
- ISBN: 9780241517352
- Imprint: Viking
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 112
- RRP: $22.99
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- Published: 1 February 2022
- ISBN: 9780241517352
- Imprint: Viking
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 112
- RRP: $22.99
McGough is a true original and more than one generation would be much the poorer without him
The Times
McGough has done for poetry what champagne does for weddings
Time Out
Memorable and enduring and fresh. Age has not withered [his lines] nor diminished their potency. Of how much modern poetry can you say that?
Sunday Herald, on 'joinedupwriting'
McGough's trademarks: the craft worn as lightly as the crown, the jokes that are something more, the underlying heartache, the acute sense of the way time slips away
Poetry Review, on 'joinedupwriting'
The patron saint of poetry
Carol Ann Duffy