Upcoming Events
2017
October 11
Lecture for Early Years teachers
October 12
Children’s Bookshow event in Wolverhampton
So They Call You Pisher! event in Sheffield for Off the Shelf
October 13
Event for Ripon Poetry Festival to launch Pogrom on the Radio (Smokestack Books)
October 16
Event to talk about Emile Zola for the English Speaking Union, Brighton
October 17
Filming more videos for our video channel ‘Kids’ Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen’
October 19
Manchester Literary Festival
1/. Children’s Event
2/. So They Call You Pisher! event
October 20
Children’s Bookshow Event in Bristol
October 21
Children of the Revolution at Rich Mix, Bethnal Green
Talking about how families and children responded to the Russian Revolution of 1917 in books (with Kimberley Reynolds – all welcome)
October 30
Cambridge: working with schools on history and poetry
November 1
Keats House, London
Teachers’ workshop
November 2
Jewish Museum
So They Call You Pisher! event
November 3
Cambridge: working with schools on history and poetry
November 6
Cambridge: working with schools on history and poetry
November 9
School in Leeds
November 15
School in Redbridge
Evening – panel at Bow Arts, Nunnery Gallery to discuss East London Group of painters
November 16
Conway Hall with Newham Bookshop to talk about
So They Call You Pisher! with Daniel Hahn
All welcome
November 17
Edinburgh Radical Book Fair
So They Call You Pisher! event
November 23
Talk with headteachers from Kent
November 24
Talk with headteachers in Birmingham
November 29
Goldsmiths, University of London
So They Call You Pisher! event
All welcome
December 4
Cambridge, Heffers bookshop
So They Call You Pisher! event
All welcome
December 6
Cannock Chase – school event
December 10
Bow Arts, Nunnery Gallery
So They Call You Pisher! event
All welcome
December 12
Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution
Event on the Disappearance of Emile Zola
December 18
BBC Breakfast to talk about Bah! Humbug!, my book based on ‘A Christmas Carol’
2018
January 5
Institute of Education, London
Talk and workshop on poetry
January 8
Cardiff: talk with head teachers
January 16
INSET with teachers in Tooting
January 18
Event to announce the winners of the Lollies Award (funniest books of the year)
January 22
Launch of booklet to protest about the introduction
of base line testing on young children
January 25
Keats House: poetry event with Hannah Lowe
All welcome
January 31
Conference, Sheffield
February 6
Talk about poetry for children at
Goldsmiths, University of London
February 8
Nottingham, talk for TAs
February 9
Goldsmiths, University of London
Children’s Literature conference
February 22
Keats House
Teachers workshop
February 24
Goldsmiths-Oxford University, colloquium on
Edward Lear and nonsense poetry
March 11
Royal Albert Hall
Hertfordshire Schools sing Daedalus and Icarus
Words: Michael Rosen
Music: Will Todd
March 15
Writing for a Purpose
Conference
March 19 or March 21
Birmingham
Teachers’ Conference
March 23
Cardiff
Head teachers conference
April 18
Institute of Education
Talk about books and poetry
April 27
Bolton
Conference: teachers
May 24
Peterborough: talk at the University Centre
For school, library, festival, conference and college bookings where you have no arrangements as yet for selling books, contact Jan or Kate at: jan@speakingofbooks.co.uk
