Ouch. It doesn't get any easier when you learn what makes Rosen most sad. His son Eddie died when he was 18. "I loved him very, very much," Rosen says, "but he died anyway." 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. 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!'

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Sometimes I’m sad and I don’t know why. It’s just a cloud that comes along and covers me up. It’s not because Eddie’s gone. It’s not because my mom’s gone. It’s just because.I was definitely happy in this photo as there was a picnic and I got to go in a little dinghy in a reservoir. It was a hot day and we had a lot of fun.

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Franks, Alan (26 October 2002), "Of love and loss", The Times, archived from the original on 15 June 2011 . Nowadays, conversations with well-wishers are an almost daily occurrence. “I’ll be coming out of the supermarket and someone will say, ‘I’m so glad you’re alive.’ And I can’t be grumpy about that. Rather than being indifferent, people are grateful that I’m still here. I think that’s pretty wonderful.” to support reading of individual poems – the image can act as a visual reminder of topics, themes or narratives for students while they are completing work on poems; 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]Michael Rosen’s Sad Book discusses various philosophical issues in the philosophy of mind. For example, when the main character describes himself as being sad but looks happy in the photograph, it raises the philosophical issue of what the experience of sadness is like. Some people know what sadness is, but do not know how to explain the experience of it. Indeed, it may not be possible to provide an explanation. Glynn, Paul (28 June 2023). "Michael Rosen 'honoured' to win PEN Pinter Prize". BBC News . Retrieved 2 July 2023. In 1993, Rosen gained an MA in Children's Literature from the University of Reading and subsequently gained a PhD from the University of North London. [17] [18] Margaret Meek Spencer supervised his work and continued to support him throughout her life. [19] Rosen recording his poem "The Listening Lions" in 2014 What makes me most sad is when I think about my son Eddie. I loved him very, very much but he died anyway.

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Educationalist Morag Styles has described Rosen as "one of the most significant figures in contemporary children's poetry". He was, says Styles, one of the first poets "to draw closely on his own childhood experiences ... and to 'tell it as it was' in the ordinary language children actually use". In the end, Joe finished school at 16. When he left I asked him why he didn’t enjoy it and he replied: “It wasn’t funny.” I said: “Well, it’s not meant to be funny, Joey, the teachers are not comedians.” And he said: “The first bit at home with you was funny, you were doing jokes. Then I went to school and it wasn’t funny.” I feel both proud to have made him happy, but sad that school was a disappointment. That I made some of his life good and at the same time a bit sad.

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Shakespeare Schools Foundation Patrons". Shakespeare Schools Foundation. Shakespeare Schools Foundation. Archived from the original on 11 December 2017 . Retrieved 12 July 2021. Michael Rosen Interview". WriteWords Writers' Community. 24 February 2004 . Retrieved 29 June 2007. Mansfield, Susan (24 August 2007), "Poetry is the greatest teacher", The Scotsman, archived from the original on 10 September 2007 .

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Ideas to change the world. Marxism 2010". Socialist Workers Party. Archived from the original on 18 April 2016 . Retrieved 7 February 2010.Rosen is chosen for laureate role". BBC News. BBC News Online. 11 June 2007. Archived from the original on 17 August 2007 . Retrieved 11 June 2007. In April 2010, Rosen was given the Fred and Anne Jarvis Award from the National Union of Teachers for "campaigning for education". [60] In July 2010, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Nottingham Trent University. [61] If anyone understands suffering, it is Rosen. In Getting Better, he documents the hardships he has faced, from Covid to the legacy of the Holocaust on his family (his two great-uncles were murdered in Auschwitz) to the premature deaths of his mother and his son, Eddie. It feels significant that, after decades spent telling mostly fictional stories for children, this is his second memoir in three years; the last one, 2021’s Many Different Kinds of Love, gave an account of Covid through the patient’s eyes, chronicling the days leading up to his hospitalisation, and latterly, his rehabilitation. Blake, who has previously illustrated Sylvia Plath’s little-known children’s book and many of Roald Dahl’s stories, brings his unmistakably expressive sensibility to the book, here and there concretizing Rosen’s abstract words into visual vignettes that make you wonder what losses of his own he is holding in the mind’s eye as he draws.