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Summer with Monika
Roger McGough
  • Published: 6 July 2017
  • ISBN: 9780241294390
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 48
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Summer with Monika

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A stunning fiftieth anniversary edition of an iconic love poem with illustrations from Chris Riddell

Summer with Monika is a love poem, charting the progress of a romance from the delicious intimacy of the honeymoon through to the stage of quarrels, jealousy, recriminations and boredom, to the point where love is as nice as a cup of tea in bed.

Re-issued for its 50th anniversary, Summer with Monika is a hidden gem of British love poetry featuring beautiful illustrations from Children's Laureate Chris Riddell.
  • Published: 6 July 2017
  • ISBN: 9780241294390
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 48
Categories:

About the author

Roger McGough

Roger McGough was a member of the group Scaffold in the 1960s when he contributed poems to the Penguin title The Mersey Sound, which has since sold over a million copies and is now available as a Penguin Classic. He has published many books of poems for children and adults, and both his Collected Poems (2004) and Selected Poems (2006) are also available in Penguin. He presents Poetry Please on Radio 4 and is President of the Poetry Society. He was honoured with the Freedom of the City of Liverpool in 2001 and with a CBE in 2005 for services to literature.
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Praise for Summer with Monika

He 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

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

Ian McMillan, Poetry Review

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