CONTENTS
Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Also by Roger McGough
Acknowledgements
Letter from the Poet
Achtung, Minen!
Geography
My Little Eye
Learning to Read
Clockwork Cheese
Through the Keyhole
A Clean Slate
Playing Cricket for Lancashire
A Snappy Dresser
The Facts of Life
Little Miracles
Runningallthewordstogether
My First Stage Kiss
Evening in Paris
Strap-happy
The Battle of the Potatoes
Along the Canal Bank
Railings
The Lure of Hull
Larkin
Working as an Artist on the Left Bank
Work Experience
Groundhog Day
The Rattlesnakes
Superpoet!
Today, a Real Live Poet Will Be Visiting the School
Bus Stops
Cinders
Goodbye Kevin, Hello Mabel
Beatnik Horror!
Us and Them
Beat Internationale
The Liverpool One Fat Lady All-Electric Show
A Short Cut to Paradise
Macca’s Twenty-first
On the Fringe
Letter to Monika
The Poppies
The Commission
At Lunchtime
Sat’day While Sunday
The Mersey Sound
McGough, McGear and Hendrix
Thank U Very Much
The Yellow Submarine
At the Eleventh Hour
Lily the Pink
Open Space
New York, New York
The Bathroom Tour
A Sting in the Tail
Docker’s son deserts wife and family to live with heiress
It’s Only Money
Sleepers
The Leaving of Liverpool
Hansel and Gretel
The Little Poor Poets
Swimming in the Dream
Calling the toss with Rushdie
Opportunity Rings
The Wind in Washington
The Wind on Broadway
Letter from the Comic
What’s in a Name?
Celebrity
Saying and Doing
Plates