CQAF Roger McGough – The Mersey Sound, 50th Anniversary

Saturday May 6, 2.00pm
Tickets £14.00

2017 marks more McGough milestones than the average year. There’s the 50th anniversary of the iconic & top-selling Penguin Modern Poets No.10 - The Mersey Sound by Roger McGough, Brian Patten and the much missed Adrian Henri.

Then the summer of ’67 epic poem of love & lust, Summer With Monika, being republished with illustrations by Chris Riddell.

Roger also has a significant birthday in November when his New and Selected Poems is published by Penguin. Today, the beat goes on, with a selection of vintage, tough & surprising poems.

‘The patron saint of poetry’ – CAROL ANN DUFFY

'Liverpool's own Poet Laureate' – DAILY POST

'rueful, unpredictable observation to please the sharpest wits' – THE INDEPENDENT

‘He is a true original and more than one generation would be much the poorer without him’ – THE TIMES

Doors: 1.45pm | Unreserved Seating