Listening to a Pogrom on the Radio - Softcover

Michael Rosen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0995767521 ISBN 13: 9780995767522

Publisher: Smokestack Books, 2017

Synopsis

'Poetry can stick up for the weak' according to Michael Rosen, or it can 'mock the mighty'; it can 'glorify our rulers or it can dissect them. You choose.'

In these powerful new poems Rosen is clear about his own choices. Listening to a Pogrom on the Radio is a book about anti-Semitism, racism, Fascism and war, Trump, le Pen, and the Tory assaults on the NHS and education the stupid and the sinister, the ridiculous and the revolting. In his first collection for grown-ups since Don t Mention the Children (2015), Michael Rosen confirms his reputation as the heir to Jacques Prevert, Ivor Cutler and Adrian Mitchell. Few poets writing today can move so effortlessly between childishness and childlike seriousness, or dare to ask, like the child in Hans Christian Andersen's story, why the silly emperor is not wearing any clothes.

About this title

About the Author

Michael Rosen was born in North London in 1946. After university he worked for the BBC on Play School and Schools TV. He has written and edited over 140 books, including <ik>Mind Your Own Business, Wouldn t You Like to Know, Mustard, Custard, Grumble Belly and Gravy, You Tell Me, No Breathing in Class and Quick Let s Get Out of Here. You Can t Catch Me! won the Signal Poetry Award. We re Going on a Bear Hunt, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury, won the Smarties Prize. He currently presents Radio Four s long-running Word of Mouth. His most recent book is The Disappearance of Emile Zola: Love, Literature and the Dreyfus Case. He is a Chevalier de l ordre des arts et des lettres was Children s Laureate from 2007-9 and is Professor of Children s Literature at Goldsmith's, University of London.

Edition details

• Publisher: Smokestack Books
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0995767521
• ISBN 13: 9780995767522
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200