Selected Poems - Softcover

Rosen, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141024550 ISBN 13: 9780141024554

Publisher: Penguin, 2007

Synopsis

Michael Rosen's Selected Poems is a wonderfully moving sequence of prose poems extracted from his acclaimed autobiographical triptych, Carrying the Elephant, This is Not My Nose and In the Colonie. In a series of artful, deceptively simple poems, Rosen covers a vast terrain, collating vivid and fragmentary memories from his left-wing Jewish upbringing, his teenage holiday at a socialist summer camp in France, his London childhood and the death of his eighteen-year-old son from meningitis. He takes in, along the way, marriage, divorce, births and the undiagnosed illness (an underactive thyroid) from which Rosen suffered for ten years.

About this title

Product Description:

A sequence of prose poems extracted from the autobiographical triptych, 'Carrying the Elephant', 'This is Not My Nose' and 'In the Colonie'. It covers a terrain that includes, collating vivid and fragmentary memories from the author's left-wing Jewish upbringing, his teenage holiday at a socialist summer camp in France, and his London childhood.

About the Author:

Michael Rosen is one of the best known figures, not only in the children's book world but also the British arts scene. His first book of children's poems was published in 1974, and he has gone on to write numerous and award-winning children's books such as Quick, Let's get Out of Here, We're Going on a Bear Hunt and Chocolate Cake. Alongside this he performs, teaches, lectures, presents Word of Mouth on BBC Radio 4 and reviews books for the Guardian. He was Children's Laureate from 2007 to 2009, and founded the Roald Dahl Funny Prize in 2008 as part of his laureateship to honour books that make children laugh!

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0141024550
• ISBN 13: 9780141024554
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144