Roger McGough on poetry, pandemic and Prince Andrew's teddies
Many things simply stopped when Covid arrived on these shores two years ago – but creativity wasn’t one of them. Writers, playwrights, musicians, actors, artists, comedians….and, yes, poets all continued to produce work, with many finding new and inventive ways of communicating and sharing it with their audience. In the case of Roger McGough, it led to a new anthology of verse – Safety in Numbers – published last November and now forming the basis of a tour which arrives at t