Roger McGough: 65 Years of Poetry

  • Tue 13 Aug 17:45 - 18:45
  • EFI Courtyard Theatre
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  • EFI Courtyard Theatre
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Roger McGough: 65 Years of Poetry

Beatles collaborator, number one pop artist, and awardee of the Freedom of the City of Liverpool and a CBE for services to literature, Roger McGough is one of the greatest living masters of his craft in Britain. He’s no stranger to Edinburgh either, having started out in the Traverse Theatre’s radical 1960s Fringe line-ups. Join him in conversation with fellow poet and Edinburgh Makar, Hannah Lavery, to celebrate the publication of The Collected Poems 1959-2024.

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