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Summer With Monika
Author: Roger McGough
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Retail Price: | $24.99 |
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ISBN: 9780241294383
Format: Hardback
Published: July 2017
Published By: Penguin
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Published: July 2017
Published By: Penguin
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Summer with Monika is a love poem, charting the progress of a romance from the delicious intimacy of the honeymoon through to the stage of quarrels, jealousy, recriminations and boredom, to the point where love is as nice as a cup of tea in bed. Re-issued for its 50th anniversary, Summer with Monika is a hidden gem of British love poetry featuring beautiful illustrations from Children's Laureate Chris Riddell.Summer with Monika is a love poem, charting the progress of a romance from the delicious intimacy of the honeymoon through to the stage of quarrels, jealousy, recriminations and boredom, to the point where love is as nice as a cup of tea in bed. Re-issued for its 50th anniversary, Summer with Monika is a hidden gem of British love poetry featuring beautiful illustrations from Children's Laureate Chris Riddell.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. He presents Poetry Please on Radio 4 and is President of the Poetry Society. He was honoured with a CBE in 2005 for services to literature. Chris Riddell, the 2015-2017 UK Children's Laureate, is an acclaimed artist of children's books and a political cartoonist for the Observer.