As Far As I Know |
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| Author:
| McGough, Roger |
| ISBN: | 978-0-241-96227-5 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2013 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books, Limited
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $27.99 |
Book Description:
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Take comfort from this. You have a book in your hand not a loaded gun or a parking fine or an invitation card to the wedding of the one you should have married.
Roger McGough is a poet who is at once directly accessible and a master of the art of surprise. He can delight us with his puns, sadden us with his stories, and occasionally tell us a few unwelcome truths too.
This new collection demonstrates the tremendous variety of his work. He imagines the various home...
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Take comfort from this. You have a book in your hand not a loaded gun or a parking fine or an invitation card to the wedding of the one you should have married.
Roger McGough is a poet who is at once directly accessible and a master of the art of surprise. He can delight us with his puns, sadden us with his stories, and occasionally tell us a few unwelcome truths too.
This new collection demonstrates the tremendous variety of his work. He imagines the various home lives of the Surrealists, composes a couple of lyrics for the lovelorn waiting at the station, plays around with a few dictionary definitions - but above all faces the uncertainties and fears of ageing with characteristic wit and courage.
Always inventive and irrepressibly comic, the warmth and honesty of his voice reaffirms McGough as a true original.
'The same blend of mischievous wordplay, subversion of cliché and distinctive sense of humour that makes him one of Britain's most popular poets.' Spectator
'Self-effacing, unshowy, frequently funny, but with a quiet frankness.' Scotsman