Roger Joseph McGough CBE FRSL (/məˈɡɒf/; born 9 November 1937) is an English poet, performance poet, broadcaster, children's author and playwright. He presents the BBC Radio 4 programme Poetry Please, as well as performing his own poetry. McGough was one of the leading members of the Liverpool poets, a group of young poets influenced by Beat poetry and the popular music and culture of 1960s Liverpool. He is an honorary fellow of Liverpool John Moores University, a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and President of the Poetry Society. More about Roger McGough
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McGough was born in Litherland, Lancashire, on the outskirts of Liverpool, to Roger Francis, a docker, and Mary (McGarry) McGough. His ancestry is Irish and he was raised in the Roman Catholic faith. He was a pupil at St Mary's College in Crosby with Laurie Taylor, future sociologist and criminologist, before going on to study French and Geography at the University of Hull. McGough lived in one of the university residences, Needler Hall, for three years from 1955 and served as hall librarian. Contemporaneously, the poet Philip Larkin became the university's librarian; newly arrived at Hull, he served as a sub-warden at Needler Hall, though he lived in private accommodation nearby. Several years later McGough corresponded with Larkin about poetry, sending him some of his own poems as he still lacked the confidence to approach the man directly. Larkin replied, thanking McGough for the poetry, which he had enjoyed reading. He added that he believed that McGough walked an impressionistic tightrope which, though exhilarating, meant that on occasion he fell off.In total, we tracked 88 items since 01/09/2012. The chart below shows the trade volume over time.
The most expensive item with a signature of Roger McGough (Sir Peter Blake Roger McGough Hand Signed Summer With Monika Vinyl Very Rare!) was sold in September 2018 for £149.99 while the cheapest item (Roger McGough / Defying Gravity / Signed 2nd Edition / Viking) found a new owner for £0.99 in May 2023. The month with the most items sold (5) was July 2020 with an average selling price of £5.00 for an autographed item of Roger McGough. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in September 2021 with £68.66 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £1.04 was December 2022. In average, an autographed item from Roger McGough is worth £10.00.
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Holiday on Death Row (Cape Poetry) SIGNED BY Roger McGough | £6.00 | ||
ROGER McGOUGH - DEFYING GRAVITY - 1992 VIKING SIGNED HARDBACK W/DUSTJACKET | £14.00 | ||
Roger McGough - Everyday Eclipses, 2003 poetry paperback, signed! | £6.05 | ||
Roger McGough / Defying Gravity / Signed 2nd Edition / Viking | £0.99 | ||
Roger McGough Book - DEFYING GRAVITY 1st Edition SIGNED - Hardback | £11.99 | ||
Roger McGough. Waving at Trains. 1982 Cape paperback. SIGNED | £7.99 | ||
Said And Done by Roger McGough (Hardback, 1st Ed, Signed, 2005) | £15.60 | ||
That Awkward Age by Roger McGough H/B D/J SIGNED COPY | £17.99 | ||
The Mersey Sound signed by ROGER McGOUGH & BRIAN PATTEN 2007 LIVERPOOL POETS | £29.50 | ||
The Mersey Sound SIGNED by Roger McGough and Brian Patten - 1968 | £11.95 |