So They Call You Pisher!: A Memoir

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ISBN 0-7012-0811-2, archived from the original on 4 October 2002 , retrieved 16 January 2007 ; Leigh, David; Lashmar, Paul (18 August 1985). Rosen played a key role in opening up children's access to poetry, both through his own writing and with important anthologies such as Culture Shock.

Michael Rosen started writing poetry when he was twelve years old, creating satirical poems about people he knew. From professional disappointments to discrimination, health issues and grief, he chronicles how he came through each thing in a very candid, very honest way.

In 2022, Rosen was awarded an honorary fellowship of the Royal College of Nursing by an exceptional 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. It was delivered with good heart and humour, whilst acknowledging life's short straws one occasionally picks. In 2004, This Is Not My Nose: A Memoir of Illness and Recovery, an account of his ten years with an undiagnosed underactive thyroid was published by Penguin. Michael is a familiar voice to BBC listeners and is currently presenting Word of Mouth, the magazine programme that looks at the English language and the way we use it. In March 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Rosen was admitted to hospital with suspected COVID-19.

You won’t be able to bring any bags over 40 x 25 x 25cm into the Queen Elizabeth Hall, so please leave large bags at home. 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. Yes,” he nods, and goes on, “I don’t know how other people describe bereavement, but I always think of the thoughts as swirling, a bit swirly-whirly.Another crisis covered in that book is Michael’s seven-week stay in intensive care (six of those were spent on a ventilator), when he caught Covid-19 in 2020.