So They Call You Pisher!: A Memoir

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In August 2010, Rosen contributed to an e-book collection of political poems entitled Emergency Verse – Poetry in Defence of the Welfare State, edited by Alan Morrison. [47] Because I’m not him!” Rosen says. “So you try not to be burdened?” I ask. “Or not to be a burden?” “Both, actually,” he says. “I guess I have sad thoughts every day. But I try not to be overcome by them.” Desert Island Discs: Michael Rosen". BBC Radio 4. 6 August 2006. Archived from the original on 5 January 2008 . Retrieved 14 December 2007. After his studies at Wadham College, Oxford, and graduation in 1969, Rosen became a graduate trainee at the BBC. Among the work that he did while there in the 1970s was presenting a series on BBC Schools television called WALRUS (Write And Learn, Read, Understand, Speak). He was also scriptwriter on the children's reading series Sam on Boffs' Island. But Rosen found working for the corporation frustrating: "Their view of 'educational' was narrow. The machine had decided this was the direction to take. Your own creativity was down the spout." Bennetts, Russell (2015). Poets for Corbyn (PDF). Pendant Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9928034-5-2. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 March 2016 . Retrieved 15 July 2017.

After he graduated, Rosen started working at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). At the BBC he wrote scripts for children’s shows. One was called Sam on Boff’s Island, which helped young children learn to read. Opinion | Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song shouldn't have won the Booker 26 November, 2023 How They Broke Britain by James O'Brien is full of anger - and not much else 23 November, 2023 Jungle House by Julianne Pachico is an affecting AI mystery 23 November, 2023 From here to paternity: Tales from the labour ward". The Independent. London. 21 June 2006 . Retrieved 19 July 2010. [ dead link] Many Different Kinds of Love follows a familiar Rosen format – an anthology of “Bits and Stuff”. As well as the poems, there is a letter written by a GP friend who sent him straight to A&E, extracts from his “patient’s diary” recorded by nurses and care-workers while he was in intensive care, and messages from his wife Emma, very much the heroine of the story. The result reflects how being in hospital “jumbles up your memories and perceptions, there’s no chronology to it”, and also his habit of jotting things down “to have a conversation with myself on paper” as a way of coping with “strange and weird” events.Rosen, Harold (5 August 2008). "Harold Rosen: A Rebel from the East End [interview]". Socialist Worker. Archived from the original on 15 August 2008 . Retrieved 21 August 2008. Rosen, Michael (26 June 2015). "For Jeremy Corbyn". Michael Rosen's Blog. Archived from the original on 6 September 2015 . Retrieved 23 August 2015. I’ll give myself a mark, shall I?” he says. “Right, fair enough. No, I think this is quite a good thing to do actually. Like they did at the Beeb. Every now and then you have to do a little…” See, for example, "Michael Rosen tour highlights". Scottish Book Trust. Archived from the original on 20 December 2008 . Retrieved 26 November 2008. In 2022, Rosen was awarded an honorary fellowship of the Royal College of Nursing by an expectational and unanimous vote of the RCN Council during the organisation's annual congress; with RCN President Dr Denise Chaffer citing Rosen's lived experience, patient advocacy, and ongoing COVID-19 public awareness work as contributory factors. Personal life

He is also a patron of the Shakespeare Schools Festival, a charity that enables schoolchildren across the UK to perform Shakespeare in professional theatres. Michael Rosen is one of the best-known figures in the children’s book world. He is renowned for his work as a poet, performer, broadcaster and scriptwriter. Charlie] would hold his nose high in the air and take long deep sniffs of the gorgeous chocolatey smell all around him.Oh, how he loved that smell!And, oh, how he wished he could go inside the factory and see what it was like!' Ian McMillan's writing lab: Michael Rosen interview". OpenLearn. 26 January 2007 . Retrieved 12 March 2014. .Michael Rosen Interview – Igniting the desire to read". Scottish Book Trust. February 2009. Archived from the original on 31 May 2009 . Retrieved 6 March 2009. .

Neale, Matthew (16 November 2019). "Exclusive: New letter supporting Jeremy Corbyn signed by Roger Waters, Robert Del Naja and more". NME. Archived from the original on 26 November 2019 . Retrieved 27 November 2019. We're Going on a Bear Hunt is a children's picture book written by Rosen and illustrated by Helen Oxenbury. The book won the overall Nestlé Smarties Book Prize in 1989 and also won the 0–5 years category. [15] The publisher, Walker Books, celebrated the work's 25th anniversary in 2014 by breaking a Guinness World Record for the Largest Reading Lesson. [16]I notice on Rosen’s desk an unframed photograph of a young man. Rosen swivels to look. “That’s him,” he says, “not all that long before he died.” The Trusty Servant May 2022". Winchester College Society. 1 May 2022. Archived from the original on 26 March 2023 . Retrieved 26 March 2023. For access to the Queen Elizabeth Hall auditorium seating rows A to C and wheelchair spaces in the Front Stalls, please enter via the Artists' Entrance in the Queen Elizabeth Hall Slip Road (Level 1). Sandhu, Sukhdev (23 September 2017). "So They Call You Pisher! by Michael Rosen review – Communism, Clive James and attitude". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 17 April 2023 . Retrieved 17 April 2023.