So They Call You Pisher!: A Memoir

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Like many others, I grew up on Michael Rosen’s work, including probably his best known, We’re Going on a Bear Hunt. Encouraged by an outpouring of affection, and support from social media, Michael’s recovery has been well documented on Twitter in particular: Sticky would appear in frequent tweets, hiding against a grey sofa, or reproaching Michael for not being used. Part visual history, part memoir, You Can Crush the Flowers is the celebrated Egyptian-Lebanese artist Bahia Shehab's chronicle of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 and its aftermath, as it manifested itself not only in the art on the streets of Cairo but also through the wider visual culture that emerged during the Revolution. That is what Rosen, now 76, tackles in this moving memoir and guide, in which he grapples with the moments that have most affected him: confronting his mortality, understanding the legacy of the Holocaust in his family, losing a job, chronic illness, and coping with the loss of his son Eddie, aged 18, from meningitis. There's a great deal that's very moving in this book, including Rosen's account of his experiences as a member of a Jewish family whose members suffered significant losses in the Holocaust, his descriptions of the loss of his son Eddie, and everything he shared about his experiences of having and recovering from Covid.From grief to trauma to writing, I learnt so much about how we can view the positive in the every day and how we shouldn’t take our lives so seriously as they can be taken from us in the blink of a moment.

We would now think that it’s not a great idea – the general consensus seems to be, ‘OK, you don’t have to let it all hang out, but you can say it, you can talk about it. He was one of the first poets to make visits to schools throughout the UK and has also visited schools throughout the world. Many Different Kinds of Love, Rosen’s poignant exploration of surviving coronavirus, was published by Ebury in 2021 and was an instant Sunday Times bestseller. You’ll appreciate that even more if, like me, you’re an obsessive of books and words and writing and stories.This Is Not a Pity Memoir, her first book, is a Sunday Times bestseller and is due to be adapted for film in 2023. Walking through a cemetery one day, they encountered a woman crying at the foot of her young son’s grave and struck up a conversation. It’s a reminiscence of what it was like growing up in the London suburbs in the 40s, 50s and 60s, with parents who came from London’s East End, with roots in Poland. Despite previously having made no secret of his leftist views when he was originally interviewed for a BBC post, he was asked to go freelance in 1972, though in practice he was sacked despite several departments of the BBC wishing to keep employing him. The publisher, Walker Books, celebrated the work's 25th anniversary in 2014 by breaking a Guinness World Record for the Largest Reading Lesson.

The judges – Ruth Borthwick (chair), Raymond Antrobus, and Amber Massie-Blomfield – praised Rosen's "ability to address the most serious matters of life in a spirit of joy, humour and hope.It doesn’t seem to matter if he’s writing children’s fiction, adult fiction or non-fiction, the words seamlessly jump off the page and into your heart. His story The Rabbi's Son, about a dying revolutionary, is two pages long if that and utterly breathtaking. Reviews of books I have read, cover to cover, and occasional essays on more or less academic topics. Michael Rosen has grieved the loss of a child, lived with debilitating chronic illness, and faced death itself when seriously unwell in hospital.

In 72 prose-poems Michael Rosen tells the story of a life: growing up with Jewish Communist parents in north London, strange trips to eastern Europe during the Cold War, trainee days at the BBC under the watchful eye of MI6, etc. The English Association awarded Michael Rosen’s Sad Book, illustrated by Quentin Blake (Walker Books), an Exceptional Award for the Best Children’s Illustrated Books of 2004, in the 4-11 age range. All this leads me to explore their background and find out what happened to the relatives who disappeared during the Second World War. Beautifully written and as well as a first hand view of the Russian Revolution there's Kropotkin and Nansen.It premiered at the Rio Cinema in Dalston, London, on 30 April 2011, as part of the East End Film Festival. Every year we publish a selection of books and pamphlets that address the key issues facing activists and trade unionists.