Roger McGough – Safety in Numbers

Staycations, adultery in lockdown, ghosts and gamblers, as well as playful advice to up and coming poets. (Don’t do it!)

With the gift of many tongues, playful, surreal and tender, McGough, ‘a trickster you can trust’ reveals the telling moments of our lives.

President of the Poetry Society, he has been honoured with a CBE for services to literature and the Freedom of the City of Liverpool.

After Lily The Pink, the Aintree Iron, Scaffold, GRIMMS, The Mersey Sound with Adrian Henri & Brian Patten and his Molière adaptations with English Touring Theatre, Roger presents the long-running Poetry Please.

The beat goes on.

‘The godfather of modern British poetry’
Metro

‘Brilliantly entertaining, a legend’
Chris Hawkins, BBC Radio 6 Music Presenter

‘a voice of calm in a world of madness’
Nick Dalton, Record Collector

‘The patron saint of poetry’
Carol Ann Duffy

’Liverpool’s own Poet Laureate’
Daily Post

Part of the Frome Festival.