A stunning fiftieth anniversary edition of an iconic love poem with illustrations from Chris Riddell.
Roger McGough (Author) 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. Chris Riddell (Illustrator) Chris Riddell, the 2015-2017 Uk Children's Laureate, is an acclaimed artist of children's books and a political cartoonist for the Observer. Amongst other titles, Chris illustrates the Ottoline young fiction series and the Goth Girl series, as well as working closely with Paul Stewart on the Edge Chronicles and Wyrmeweald. He has won many awards for his work, including the Nestle Gold Award, the Costa Children's Book Award 2013, the UNESCO Award for Something Else and the rare honour of two Kate Greenaway Medals.
McGough has done for poetry what champagne does for weddings * Time
Out *
He is a true original and more than one generation would be much
the poorer without him * The Times *
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 *
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