Summer with Monika
Summer with Monika is a suite of 60's songs and poetry about young love compiled, arranged recorded by Roger McGough () and Andy Roberts ().
Not to be confused with the film of the same name and similar theme by Ingmar Bergman
The original text
In 1967, Roger McGough published Summer with Monika, a tale of love that took its title from Ingmar Bergman's classic 1953 film. A suite of interlinked poems, the work paints an honest and touching portrait of a romantic love affair from the delicious intimacy of the honeymoon, with the milk bottles turning to cheese on the doorstep, through the stage of quarrels, jealousy, recriminations and boredom, to the point where love is as nice as a cup of tea in bed.
In 1978 McGough and his long-time accompianist / guitarist Andy Roberts arranged the poems into a suite of songs, and recorded it with various artists, with arrangements by Robert Kirby and under the production of John Leckie, and released on the Island label.
