Pillow Talk: A Book of Poems - Tapa dura

Wouldn't it be funny if you didn't have a nose? This collection asks questions such as these. It tells you when to cut your fingernails, how to have a real pillow fight and what happens when a burp escapes.

Roger 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 Collected Poems (2004) and Selected Poems (2006) are also available in Penguin. He presents Poetry Please on 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.