Roger McGough Bücher

Die größte zweisprachige Lyrik-Anthologie im Originalton versammelt 94 englischsprachige Lyrikerinnen und Lyriker und bietet seltene Sprachaufnahmen, die in mehrjähriger Recherche zusammengetragen wurden. Die Anthologie nimmt die Hörer mit auf eine zeitliche und geographische Reise durch das letzte Jahrhundert der englischsprachigen Welt. Die Übersetzungen werden von erstklassigen Schauspielern gelesen und stammen von angesehenen Lyrikern und Übersetzern. Zu den vertretenen Dichtern gehören Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Walt Whitman, William Butler Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Lee Masters, James Weldon Johnson, Walter de la Mare, Gertrude Stein, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Wallace Stevens, James Joyce, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Robinson Jeffers, Edith Sitwell, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Conrad Aiken, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Archibald Macleish, Dorothy Parker, E. E. Cummings, Robert Ranke Graves, Louise Bogan, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, Ogden Nash, Louis Zukofsky, Patrick Kavanagh, Samuel Beckett, W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Elizabeth Bishop, John Cage, Karl Shapiro, Delmore Schwartz, Muriel Rukeyser, Dylan Thomas, James Laughlin, Robert Lowell, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Charles Bukowski, Richard Wilbur, Jack Kerouac, Philip Larkin, Denise Levertov, Michael Hamburger, Kenneth Koch, Robert Creeley, Robert Bly, Allen Ginsberg, Frank O'Hara, Charles Tomlinson

Through the perspective of Dudley, a techno-wizard dog, readers are introduced to familiar machines and everyday technology in a fun and engaging way. This unique approach combines humor and education, making complex concepts accessible and entertaining for all ages. Dudley's insights help demystify the workings of various devices, fostering curiosity and understanding of the technological world around us.

In his first new book since "Defying Gravity" in 1993, Roger McGough mixes surreal nonsense with gentle humour.

From the back cover:“Collected Poems brings together forty years of poetry from Britain’s favourite wordsmith in one volume for the first time. From the quintessential 1960s poems ‘Let Me Die a Youngman’s Death’ and ‘Summer with Monika’ to the recent tender poems of fatherhood, this collection shows exactly why Roger McGough is one of our most celebrated poets.”

Brings together over 300 nursery rhymes and poems suitable for reading aloud to babies and toddlers. As well as traditional rhymes like " Jack and Jill" , the collection also includes rhymes by Christina Rosetti, and contemporary poetry by writers such as Charles Causley and Grace Nichols.

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A side-splitting selection Following the extraordinary success of Funny Stories, this second volume of rib-tickling tales contains another collection guaranteed to raise a laugh. With old favourites like Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer and Richmal Crompton's William, as well as contributions from Judy Blume, Roald Dahl, Terry Jones and Michael Rosen, this book has a wide-ranging selection of the funniest stories from around the world. Young readers will love Comic Stories

A collection of the very best poems for children, edited by Roger McGough A wonderful collection of contemporary and classic poems chosen by children from schools around the UK. Roger McGough made the final selection and wrote the introduction. Roger McGough was born in Liverpool and educated at the University of Hull. He came to prominence in the 1960s with the publication of THE MERSEY SOUND, and is one of today's most popular poets. He writes for children and adults and performs his poetry all over the world. He was honoured with an OBE in 1997, and won the Signal Poetry Award in 1998. Roger now lives in London. Sheila Moxley is gaining a powerful reputation for her multi-cultural illustration. She lives in London.

Of this book Morag Styles and Pat Triggs wrote in the BFK Guide to Poetry: This really is a fabulous book, comic verse at its best. McGough doesn't take a crude or simplistic view of humour: there are poems which give you a good belly laugh; but many others surprise, provoke or quietly amuse. Rich in content and illustration, Caroline Holden provides brilliantly funny drawings.

A witty and mischievous tale inspired by The Wind in the Willows, from renowned poet Roger McGough.Mr Toad has a shiny gold coin. He gives it to Miss Mole to pay for a room in her hotel. Now Miss Mole can pay Sam Stoat for painting the hotel, and Sam Stoat can pay back Mr Badger ... until the coin might just end up back where it started! From renowned poet Roger McGough and Kate Greenaway Medal winner Mini Grey, this is an inspired and witty tale featuring beloved characters from The Wind in the Willows.

This delightful children's poetry anthology brings together the 100 Best Christmas Poems for Children, edited and introduced by Roger McGough.

'"The Mersey Sound is an attempt to introduce contemporary poetry to the general reader by publishing representative work by each of three modern poets in a single volume, in each case the selection has been made to illustrate the poet's characteristics in style and form'.With this modest brief, The Mersey Sound was conceived and first published in 1967. An anthology which features Roger McGough's work, alongside that of Brian Patten and Adrian Henri (The Liverpool Poets), it went on to sell over half a million copies and to become the bestselling poetry anthology of all time.Irreverent, sardonic, funny and sad, these are the poems that echo the mood of the sixties. A selection of the early work of three Liverpool poets who brought poetry down from the dusty shelf and onto the street." --Publisher

Poems describe some ususual creatures--real, imaginary, or somewhere in between--from the aardvark and the allivator to the yak and the zonk

A collection of poems, which come to terms with painful memories as well as confronts fears that are universal.

Includes a series of poems about the exploits of some gangster cats and verse based on Carnival of the Animals by Saint Saens.

144p period paperback, colourful cover, excellent fresh copy with birthday inscription, very good

AN EXUBERANT NEW COLLECTION FROM ONE OF BRITAIN'S BEST LOVED POETS 'The patron saint of poetry' Carol Ann Duffy For more than fifty years, Roger McGough has entranced generations of readers with poetry which is at once playful and poignant, intimate and ambitious in its scope. From forgotten friendships and the idiosyncrasies of family life, to the trauma of war right through to contemporary politics, joinedupwriting explores the human experience in all its shades of light and dark, but always with McGough's signature wit and style. This is the nation's favourite poet at his very finest. 'McGough has done for poetry what champagne does for weddings' Time Out

A collection of largely humorous poems by two well-known poets, intended principally for the 12-14 age group and many reflecting school experiences.

Roger McGough made his name in The Mersey Sound, published in 1967 and a bestseller ever since. Over the years, McGough has continued to delight readers with his short, playful and comic verses, and in The State of Poetry he displays the range and the wit that continues to make him one of the leading lights of British poetry.

An illustrated dictionary with rhymes and picture puzzles accompanying each letter.

One of a child's most exciting early challenges is discovering the world of what do they look like? what do they mean? how does a person answer the questions "how much" and "how many"?The Oxford 123 Book of Number Rhymes is a lively introduction to the numerals one through ten that makes learning about numbers as much fun as it is educational. The book presents each number through imaginative poems and pictures, as well as puzzles, games, jokes, and limericks--allaccompanied by happy and colorful illustrations--that directly involve young readers in the explanations.The book also introduces other important concepts through numbers, such as the seven days of the week, the five senses, and other basic elements that make up a young child's world. After they've mastered the individual numerals, the longer poems at the end of the book challenge children topractice counting in sequence.For parents and children to discover together, and for more experienced young readers to explore on their own, The Oxford 123 Book of Number Rhymes is a fine introduction to one of the first important concepts a child will learn.

Touto knihou se českým čtenářům představuje jedna z nejzajímavějších postav současné britské literatury. Básník, performer, dramatik, scénárista a autor knih pro děti Roger McGough (* 1937 v Liverpoolu) si za padesát let svého nepřetržitého působení na literární, hudební a divadelní scéně vysloužil jak přízeň čtenářského a posluchačského publika, tak i respekt kritiky.

Mersey Sound - liverpoolska scéna hudobná i poetická. V tomto výbere sú zastúpení traja básnici 60. rokov: Adrian Henri, Roger McGough a Brian Patten.