Michael Rosen

A place where I'll post up some thoughts and ideas - especially on literature in education, children's literature in general, poetry, reading, writing, teaching and thoughts on current affairs.

Monday, 29 September 2014

New Poem: Underground

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It said, ‘Please use the stairs’, so everyone turned right at the end of the platform. Someone with a buggy hesitated and there was a ...

Saturday, 27 September 2014

New poem: Car Alarm

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I wondered if car alarms go off in the night because they feel unappreciated. When they go off, they know that people have turned over in th...

Friday, 26 September 2014

Who is the Enemy?

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Who is the enemy? The enemy are the people who do terrible things. Do we do terrible things? No. Who is our friend? Our friends are goo...

New poem: Tattoos

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I had a thought that I would be the last person in London who didn’t have a tattoo. I was looking in the window of a tattooing place a...

Thursday, 25 September 2014

New poem: Escalator

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I got on a down escalator at a station and I remember thinking it was a bit strange that I was the only person on it, I noticed an ...

Wednesday, 24 September 2014

New poem: Hair

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I was in the barbers. When the barber had finished cutting my hair, he was about to flap my overall and flick the offcuts on to the ...

Tuesday, 23 September 2014

Once upon a time there was Bourdieu….

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Once upon a time there was a man called Bourdieu who looked at what he called a 'habitus', the total psycho-socio-economic picture...

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