Saturday 3 May 6.30 pm - Festival Marquee – Tickets £14.50 (Early Bird)/ £16.00

A new book of poems by Roger McGough is always an event and As Far As I Know is truly a cause for celebration. Hilarious and surreal, he is a poet of many voices. Menace and melancholy there may be, but with plenty of McGough's characteristic wit and wordplay too.

Newly elected President of the Poetry Society, Roger McGough has been honoured with a CBE for services to literature and the Freedom of the City of Liverpool for good behaviour. Lily The Pink, the Aintree Iron, Scaffold, GRIMMS, The Mersey Sound with Adrian Henri & Brian Patten and presenter of the long-running Poetry Please. The beat goes on.

For adults & 14+. Followed by book signing

'His poetry is like a supermodel who can complete a Sudoku puzzle moments before swishing down the catwalk --- easy on the eye and smart as a whip.' Birmingham Daily Post

'rueful, unpredictable observation to please the sharpest wits' The Independent

‘He is a true original and more than one generation would be much the poorer without him’ The Times

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