It Never Rains Av Roger Mcgough

<p><i>It Never Rains</i> by Roger McGough - an expanded edition of comic verse and free line drawings, from the nation''s favourite poet<br><br>While up at Magdalen<br>Spent the time dagdalen.<br>Moved on to Caius<br>Became the baius knaius.<br><br>''Oxford Blues'' is one of the many new poems in this expanded and revised edition of <i>The State of Poetry</i>, 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.<br><br>''The patron saint of poetry'' Carol Ann Duffy<br><br>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 <i>Collected Poems </i>(2004) and <i>Selected Poems </i>(2006) are also available in Penguin. He presents <i>Poetry Please </i>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.</p>