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.

Tuesday, 21 July 2015

Ted Hughes, radio and Secondary Modern School children

When we were making the programme about Ted Hughes's 'Poetry in the Making' ('Poetry in the Re-making' Radio 4 Sunday) I...

"I aspirationally abstained…."

"As your Labour MP, I would like to say that I aspirationally abstained last night on the grounds that people have told me that they ar...

'People' didn't know about the Nazis in 1933. Apparently.

Thank you Newsnight for providing excuses for why it was possible for the Royal Family to have a larf doing Hitler salutes in 1933. Thank yo...

,,,but Cameron loves segregation

Don't know what Cameron was on about when he was talking about 'segregation'. Posh Tories like him love segregation. People like...

Wednesday, 15 July 2015

Odysseus hears how the people (and Penelope) are on the streets

…and messengers came from Ithaca with news from Penelope, Odysseus's long-suffering wife. 'O Odysseus,' said the messengers. ...

IMF: Circe Lagardos chides Odysseus

..and Odysseus returned to the wood where Circe Lagardos lived. 'O Odysseus,' she lamented, 'did I not warn you of being brough...

Tragedy ("when the feeling's gone…" ), Giovanni Aurispa, musty ole books etc...

I often get interested in 'cultural transmission' and 'cultural mediation' because no matter how much energy we devote to ...

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