num_pages: 54
description: Roger McGough made his name in The Mersey Sound, published in 1967 and a bestseller ever since. Over the years, McGough has continued to delight readers with his short, playful and comic verses, and in The State of Poetry he displays the range and the wit that continues to make him one of the leading lights of British poetry.
language: English
title: The State of Poetry
titlecomplete: The State of Poetry
genres: Fiction, British Literature, Humor, Poetry
ratings_count: 75
publisher: Penguin Books