Roger McGough
With their witty play on words, Roger McGough's poems amuse the reader whilst offering food for serious thought. Roger was made a CBE for his services to poetry. He was the chair of judges for CLiPPA 2014 and 2015 and is a patron of CLPE.
Roger has donated his poem, Tomorrow Has Your Name On It, for National Poety Day 2016. See the resource that we have created for the poem in the KS1/2 tab here, download videos of Roger reading at the bottom of this page and listen to him performing Tomorrow Has Your Name On It with LiTTLe MACHiNe here.
Roger's collection Poetry Pie was shortlisted for the 2016 CLiPPA award.
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Resources
Teaching Sequences
Videos
Roger McGough - Alternative Santa
Roger McGough - Clerihews
Roger McGough - Mafia Cats
Roger McGough - The boy with the similar name
Roger McGough - Poetry Pie
Roger McGough - The Power of Poets
Roger McGough - The Cat's Protection League
Roger McGough - The Lost Lost-Property Office
Roger McGough - The midnight skaters
Roger McGough - The Sound Collector
Roger McGough - Tomorrow Has Your Name On It
Roger McGough reads The Colour Collector at the CLiPPA 2015
Roger McGough - Didgeridoo
Roger McGough - Nightmares (for the CLiPPA 2016 Award Ceremony)
Roger McGough - The Scarecrow Replies
Roger McGough - Don't go Where the Scarecrows Are
Roger McGough - In Case of Fire
Roger McGough - Five-Car Family
Roger McGough - Emus
Roger McGough - Give and Take
Roger McGough - Reward and Punishment
Roger McGough - The Reader of This Poem
Roger McGough - The Writer of This Poem