You Have Been Warned! - Hardcover

McGough, Roger

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0192792164 ISBN 13: 9780192792167

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Here is a modern take on cautionary verse in the hugely successful tradition of Hilaire Belloc and others. Children getting into and out of trouble is the theme of this collection - which offers much scope for hilarious pranks and wonderfully sticky endings. With poems from poets as diverse as Hilaire Belloc, Shel Silverstein, Dick King-Smith, Heinrich Hoffmann, John Agard, and of course Roger McGough himself, this will appeal to all fans of the comic, the unfortunate, and the darkly humorous!

About this title

About the Author

Roger McGough has been in the public eye for about 40 years as a poet, broadcaster, performer and playwright. He was a member of the pop music/poetry group 'The Scaffold' between 1963 and 1973 and made his name as one of the 'Liverpool Poets' with Adrian Henri and Brian Patten included in 'The Mersey Sound: Penguin Modern Poets 10' (1967). He was awarded an OBE in 1997 and a CBE in 2005. He has twice won the Signal Poetry Award: first in 1984 with 'Sky in the Pie', then again in 1999 for 'Bad, Bad Cats'. His 'Collected Poems', bringing together over forty years of McGough's poetry, was published in 2003, and his live poetry album, 'Lively', is available on CD. His most recent children's anthology 'Sensational!' for Macmillan won the CLPE Poetry Award in 2005.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0192792164
• ISBN 13: 9780192792167
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 144