Michael Rosen
@michaelrosenyes
Writer, performer, broadcaster, university professor Website: www.michaelrosen.co.uk YouTube Channel: 'Kids' Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen' Radio show: BBC Radio 4 'Word of Mouth' Goldsmiths University of London, Prof Children's Lit., teaching MA
Me doing a poetry show for the Goldsmiths schools Critical Connections Festival on June 11 - bilingual stories and poems with Vicky Macleroy and Michaël Vidon.
Next stops with my NICE show are: Brighton Dome June 7 Southport Atkinson June 13 Rugby, Temple Speech Room, June 20
Busy day tomorrow in MC Grammar 's studio recording the raps from this. I'm guessing that it'll be very hot. (That's the temperature, not my performance) And I'm also guessing that some point MC Grammar will say, 'Drop some beats' and I will pretend to know what to do.
At last! A paperback edition of all the poems from The Hypnotiser - the poems that kicked off our YouTube channel ‘Kids’ Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen’ . Watch the vids: read the poems!
In 1988 I did a collection of poems called 'The Hypnotiser'. It went out of print but I did video versions of them, some of which became quite famous eg 'Hot Food' 'No Breathing in Class' etc. Now @WalkerBooksUK are bringing out a new edition of the book, July 2 this year.
Exclusive 80th birthday signing @newhambookshop + @walkerbooksuk Goodie bags for the first 25 customers
I wrote a book called 'One Day', superbly illustrated by @benjamindraws that tells the story of Jewish members of the French Resistance who escaped from the train deporting them to Auschwitz. My father's uncle and aunt were on the same train but didn't escape.
Today I was talking about 'Oracy' with Amy Gaunt from Voice 21, for BBC Radio 4 'Word of Mouth'. It was a recording so it'll go out in a few weeks time. I hope you get to catch it
Here's Connie Rosen (née Isakofsky) (my mother) at work in the early 1950s Harvey Road Primary School, Croxley Green, Hertfordshire.