Roger McGough (November 9 - 1937 / Liverpool / England)

Dear McGough,
I am a phD student writing about your poems, Liverpool poets, I feel neon lights come to me when I read nearly all your poems, but what amuses me more is the poem entitled strangeways: where Granny's canary revolt till gran carries out major reforms. Even canaries can not stand the beautiful cage. Thank you so much. Shatha Alsaadi

hi iam a speech and drama student and one of my selections for my performance exam is one of your poems 'Learning to Read' Which is very beautiful n emotional when u recite it. i like the poem very much and that was reason to choose your poem for my selections.therefore can you help me in giving more tips about this poem. what made you write this kind of a poem and what it means for you? ? ? ? ?

Dear Mr Roger.
It is a pleassure write some lines to you. I am a EFL student from Venezuela and I have an assignment for my British Literature course. My homework is to analyse a poem under the author's point of view. I have to analyse 'You and I'. Thanks in advance if you can help me interpret the poem mentioned, what motivated you to write it and what it means for you.

Respected Sir,
I read your poem ' Let me die a young man's death'. It was great and I understand that the said poem is amongst the 50 all time great poems. I wish you give some lessons to young poets like me and help us hone our skills.
With humble regards,

'The Lesson'

I really enjoyed reading this poem because it was really funny but on the other hand it makes you think about how you could improve in our behaviour and makes us understand that sometimes the teachers get crazy when we are shouting and doing all sorts of bad things.

I think you are a really phenomenal poet and I look forward to read another poem from you. I really want to say a colossol 'thank you'

Elena. Aged 10

Dear Mr Roger McGough,

I am very appalled at your poem 'The Lesson'. It is a bad influence to all children. Even though it was very humourous but it still is a very bad influence to children. It is an absolute draught. In future I do expect for you to do more suitable poems for children to read. I was learning about your poetry this week. I was totally disgusted. The behaviour in this poem is gritty however I think children should never be taught never even to be heard of this poem.

Yours faithfully,

Hadsan. Aged 10.

Dear Roger McGough

I am writing to tell you how I feel and what I think of your poem The Lesson. I think that your poem should have been for adults because if a young child reads this, what thoughts will they have in mind? Since I started reading it, it made me feel bad even though you used lots of rhyming words.

Whilst I was reading it it made me sick therefore I think you shouldn't give this poem to young children, furthermore I think children will be afraid of their teachers.

On the other hand I thought you worked really hard for this seeing as all the rhyming words you used children will like some of it.
Even though you used lots of rhyming words which is good I dont think you should have put in the shooting and killing bit.
My final thought all together: I think your poem was disgusting, rubbish, dross, muck, nonsense, garbage, lumber, rubble, scrap, trash, waste and stupid.

From

Hermes. Aged 10

Too bad that I can't add you to My Friends list.

Hi i love your poem Icarus Allsorts. when i read it i could picture in my head what was going on. I had to study this poem and you for a school project and i found the poem very interesting.

I thought that surivor was a good poem because it made me think what you were going throw in your lfe and also I wanna have a young mans death was a good because it was said that you wanted to die at all these ages and things you might have gone throw well really i liked all of them poems but those two were my favoite poems so thankyou
from laura and jai