'The patron saint of poetry' Carol Ann Duffy

For sixty years, Roger McGough has thrilled and delighted generations of readers with his irreverent, intimate and ever-original poetry. The Collected Poems presents the definitive selection of his very best work, from the Mersey-soaked sound of his quintessential Sixties start, through to tender meditations on fatherhood and family, and on to political sendups, pandemic playfulness and brilliant new writing. Here, then, is an unmatched store of warmth, wisdom and feeling from Britain's most beloved poet.

'McGough has done for poetry what champagne does for weddings' Time Out

"This triumphant anthology stuns…If you’ve only room for one book when you go on holiday this summer, take this" - The Guardian

"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

"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