Roger McGough: Alive & Gigging

Poetry

Date: 28 January 2023

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Alive & Gigging is the world premiere, a new collection from the nation’s favourite poet. At that awkward age now between birth and death, Roger McGough 85 years old and the ‘Living proof of himself,’ puts on a brave face and takes to the stage with a show featuring poems that are funny, sad and moving.President of the Poetry Society, he has been honoured with a CBE for services to literature and the Freedom of the City of Liverpool. After Lily The Pink, the Aintree Iron, Scaffold, GRIMMS, The Mersey Sound with Adrian Henri & Brian Patten and his Molière adaptations with English Touring Theatre, Roger presents the long-running Poetry Please. The beat goes on.

‘And where better to open than at the beginning of the Landmark’s poetry season.’ Roger McGough

“The godfather of modern British poetry” Metro

“Brilliantly entertaining, a legend” Chris Hawkins, BBC Radio 6 Music Presenter

“A voice of calm in a world of madness” Nick Dalton, Record Collector

“The patron saint of poetry” Carol Ann Duffy

“Liverpool’s own Poet Laureate” Daily Post