It Never Rains by Roger McGough - an expanded edition of comic verse
and free line drawings, from the nation's favourite poet
While up at Magdalen
Spent the time dagdalen.
Moved on to Caius
Became the baius knaius.
'Oxford Blues' is one of the many new poems in this expanded and revised
edition of The State of Poetry, Roger McGough's book of short humorous
verse which was published in 2005 as part of Penguin's 70s series
celebrating its 70th anniversary. From a poem commissioned to
commemorate Dylan Thomas in just 140 characters, which unfortunately
comes to an end mid-word, to a pre-emptive erratum notice, these poems
show McGough at his inventive, hilarious best - and there are also new
line drawings by the author offered at no extra cost.
'The patron saint of poetry' Carol Ann Duffy
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.
