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, 29 December 2020

"Underlying health conditions": the Brewer-Hitchens argument

There have been many sceptics, doubters and conspiracy theorists in the face of the Covid pandemic. Some said that the whole thing could be ...

Sunday, 27 December 2020

Quentin Blake's 'Clown' and Covid

What does a picture book with no words tell us about Covid? The story is of a toy clown who is discarded along with some other old toys. H...

Destructive forces: in King Lear and the Odyssey

Two forces: the one where you destroy things; the other when things destroy you. King Lear destroys the love Cordelia had for him but ...

King Boris and the Gas Army

King Boris is informed that a new and dangerous army is on the borders and approaching. This army uses a gas that attacks everyone. They’ve...

Saturday, 26 December 2020

How can poems speak to us out of the past about what's going on now?

This is 'Strange Meeting' by Wilfred Owen: It seemed that out of the battle I escaped Down some profound dull tunnel, long since sc...

No Politician Said

No politician said: 'And now we're doing herd immunity, now we're going to let Covid spread however it wants to. That way, som...

I was bad...

I was bad. I took a wrong turning in life: I got old. I didn't mean to. Perhaps someone led me astray. Perhaps I was weak. I just got ...

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