{"product_id":"9780241971437","title":"It Never Rains","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIt Never Rains\u003c\/i\u003e by Roger McGough - an expanded edition of comic verse and free line drawings, from the nation's favourite poet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile up at Magdalen\u003cbr\u003eSpent the time dagdalen.\u003cbr\u003eMoved on to Caius\u003cbr\u003eBecame the baius knaius.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Oxford Blues' is one of the many new poems in this expanded and revised edition of \u003ci\u003eThe State of Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, Roger McGough's book of short humorous verse which was published in 2005 as part of Penguin's 70s series celebrating its 70th anniversary. From a poem commissioned to commemorate Dylan Thomas in just 140 characters, which unfortunately comes to an end mid-word, to a pre-emptive erratum notice, these poems show McGough at his inventive, hilarious best - and there are also new line drawings by the author offered at no extra cost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'The patron saint of poetry' Carol Ann Duffy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoger McGough was a member of the group Scaffold in the 1960s when he contributed poems to the Penguin title The Mersey Sound, which has since sold over a million copies and is now available as a Penguin Classic. He has published many books of poems for children and adults, and both his \u003ci\u003eCollected Poems \u003c\/i\u003e(2004) and \u003ci\u003eSelected Poems \u003c\/i\u003e(2006) are also available in Penguin. He presents \u003ci\u003ePoetry Please \u003c\/i\u003eon Radio 4 and is President of the Poetry Society. He was honoured with the Freedom of the City of Liverpool in 2001 and with a CBE in 2005 for services to literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47111732166896,"sku":"9780241971437","price":7.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780241971437_p0.jpg?v=1763684713","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780241971437","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}