Michael rosen poet biography template
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What Are We Doing Here?
You were Children’s Laureate from 2007 to 2009 and have published more than 140 books for children. Do you remember the day you decided you wanted to be a ‘children’s writer’?
I didn’t, I got captured. In 1974, I was writing for adults about my childhood – as an adult, in the voice of a child, like James Joyce. I thought I was being terribly sophisticated and ironic. But when I tried to hawk this stuff to adult poetry publishers, they turned their noses up at it. In the end, a children’s publisher took it on and then suddenly the children’s book world took me in its big, hugging arms, in the way it does. It’s not like the adult world at all. Instead of ‘Who are you? You’re a bit of a newcomer,’ it’s: ‘Oh, here’s an exciting new person and he wants to read his funny poems!’
So, suddenly [my poetry] wasn’t ironic, it was: This is what my childhood was like. And I’m sitting in front of a thousand children going
Down behind the dustbin
I met a dog called Jim.
He didn’t know me
And I didn’t know him1See bit.ly/2aKWkA6.
– and they’re going, ‘Do more!’
Why were you so keen to write about your childhood?
I wanted to try and get to the stuff that went on between me and my brother and my parents and my teachers – which is, for whatever
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Michael Rosen
British lowgrade author don poet (born 1946)
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Early urbanity and education
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Professor Michael Rosen
Michael Rosen is Professor of Children's Literature.
Since the late 1960s, Michael Rosen has been writing books, articles, plays and various kinds of scripts; performing poetry for audiences of all ages; and broadcasting on literature related subjects on radio and TV. From 2007-2009 he was Children's Laureate. Michael’s academic pathway took him to read English at undergraduate level at Wadham College, Oxford, and later to study for an MA at Reading University. Following his Ph.D, completed in 1997, he has taught Children's Literature on MA courses at various universities.
Click here to catch Michael's thoughts, ideas, and articles on his blog.
Read Michael's keynote speech (PDF) from the 2016 Writers and Teachers Conference at Goldsmiths.
Publications and research outputs
Book
Rosen, Michael. 2017. Listening to a Pogrom on the Radio. Ripon: Smokestack Books. ISBN 978-0-9957675-2-2
Rosen, Michael. 2017. So They Call You Pisher! A memoir. London: Verso. ISBN 9781786633965
Rosen, Michael. 2017. Bah! Humbug! A Christmas Carol, illustrated by Tony Ross. London: Scholastic. ISBN 9781407185170
Rosen, Michael. 2017. Barking at Bagels, illustrated by Tony Ross. London: Andersen. ISBN 9781783445059
Rosen, Michael. 2017. The Di