90 results for poem

  • A Running Away Poem

    A Running Away Poem This is part of a poem or narrative that I’ve written for some Year 11 dance students at a school in Cambridge. They’re going to devise a dance about Oscar and Rachel, who are my father’s uncle and aunt. While you’re reading this, you might want to imagine two people, one Oscar, one Rachel. They are ...read more

  • Poems About Education

    Poems About Education Poems About Education is a collection of poems that Michael Rosen has been writing for the magazines of the former National Union of Teachers and now the amalgamated union, the National Education Union. They are a mix of punchy, satirical, regretful, and a call to action, but always sharp, to the point, and full of ironic observation. They ...read more

  • ‘Thoughts’ Rather Than ‘Poems’…

    ‘Thoughts’ Rather Than ‘Poems’… I’ve done a book called Pebbles (Smokestack Books). It’s made up of what we can call ‘thoughts’ rather than ‘poems’. What I tried to do was grab things that I heard saw remembered imagined and thought about. Each time I came up with something, I just wrote it down, often in ‘lines’ as you find in ...read more

  • Out Of This World: A brand new collection of poems to make you laugh, smile and think

    Out Of This World: A brand new collection of poems to make you laugh, smile and think   Illustrated by Ed Vere. A brand new collection of poetry by former Children’s Laureate Michael Rosen, author of We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, with illustrations by acclaimed artist Ed Vere. What would it be like to live in the future? Or ...read more

  • Long Thin Poem

    If you change the shape of how you write, it can change the way you think and it can change the effect that the poem has on the way you read it and the way that other people read it. One way to do this, is to try writing something with one word per line.

  • Ready for Spaghetti: Funny Poems for Funny Kids

    Ready for Spaghetti: Funny Poems for Funny Kids From two of the biggest names in children’s publishing, this is an inspiring guide to wordplay for young readers, their parents and teachers. I’m ready for spaghetti Will you getti the spaghetti? Don’t say, “Not yetti spaghetti!” ‘cos I’m all setti for spaghetti. Fizzing with rhythm, energy and laughter, the 30 poems ...read more

  • Poem by my Cat

    The idea behind this poem is that a pet has thoughts about the person looking after it. Our cat loves sitting on our laps. So I thought about how the cat might think of what it feels like when I get up...

  • A ‘Listening-Thinking’ Poem

    This is what I could call a ‘listening-thinking poem’. The first part is about what I can hear (or not hear). The second part is about what I ‘wonder’...

  • Poem Idea

    You’re in school assembly…what’s going on? Perhaps a teacher is speaking…what are they saying?…perhaps some children are doing ‘Show and tell’…what are they showing?…but what are you thinking? Are you thinking about what you did last night? Or what you might do tomorrow? Or at the weekend? Now, back in assembly: what’s going on? Are you all going to sing something? What? And what are you thinking about that?...

  • Michael Rosen’s Poetry Videos: How To Get Children Writing and Performing Poems Too

    Michael Rosen’s Poetry Videos: How To Get Children Writing and Performing Poems Too This is a guide for teachers on how to support children to write and perform poems that matter to them – it shares creative ways to harness the classroom potential of the ‘Kids’ Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen’ YouTube channel. It is a practical and supportive ...read more

  • On the Move: Poems About Migration

    On the Move: Poems About Migration Former Children’s Laureates Michael Rosen and Sir Quentin Blake join forces for a personal and uniquely affecting collection of poems about migration. “What you leave behind Won’t leave your mind. But home is where you find it. Home is where you find it.” Michael Rosen and Sir Quentin Blake join forces for a landmark ...read more

  • Poems & Emotions

    We’re used to thinking of one kind of poem being about feelings and emotions - love, sadness, mourning, hope and so on. Think of one of the most famous poems in English, the one by Wordsworth that begins, ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud...’ Straightaway there in the first line is an emotion-feeling word: ‘lonely’...

  • How to Look at a Poem

    If you’re sitting looking at a poem and you’re wondering what to say about it, think about or write about it, one of the best places to start is to ask yourself if there is anything in the poem or about the poem that makes you think of something that has happened in your life - or in the life of someone you know...

  • Build a Poem or a Rap

    Here's a simple way to build a poem or a rap: collect words from the street. What you do is write down the names of shops, buildings, stations that you see. You add in the kinds of ads that you see up in the street, stuff to do with 'buy this!'...

  • Tips For Writing Poems

    People often ask me for tips about writing poems. I always say that the best and simplest way to think about writing poems is first to read some poems. Then as you read say to yourself 'I could write like that'. When you think about those words 'like that', that means you could write a poem that sounds like that; or has a pattern like that; has a theme like that; or anything that is triggered off by any word or picture in the poem.  Remember, poems are ways of beginning conversations...

  • Poems and Stories About my Family

    Poems And Stories About My Family Here are some videos that my son Joe has made. They all come from my books so you can find them there along with many others like them. The books you will find them in are: Michael Rosen’s Big Book Of Bad Things, Quick, Let’s Get Out Of Here, Centrally Heated Knickers, You Wait Till ...read more

  • What Is Poetry?: The Essential Guide to Reading and Writing Poems

    What Is Poetry? The Essential Guide to Reading and Writing Poems A detailed and very personal guide to reading and writing poetry by one of the country’s leading children’s poets. Over many years as a working poet, Michael Rosen has thought a great deal about what poems are, what they can do and the pleasure that comes from writing and ...read more

  • A Great Big Cuddle: Poems for the Very Young

    A Great Big Cuddle: Poems for the Very Young Two of the biggest names in children’s publishing, Michael Rosen and Chris Riddell, come together in a new poetry collection. The poems in A Great Big Cuddle fizz off the page with sound and rhythm, energy and laughter, as Rosen captures in the most remarkable way what it means to be ...read more

  • Poems of Protest

    Poems of Protest Michael Rosen argues that William Morris’ socialist poetry was part of a long tradition of protest writing and a signpost for future struggles. This volume includes work that has not been published since first appearing as propaganda in The Commonweal, the paper of Morris’ Socialist League. Although poetry was a small part of his enormous written output, ...read more

  • Fighters For Life: Selected Poems

    Fighters For Life: Selected Poems A collection of some of the best of Michael Rosen’s political poems. Readers hear the polyglot sounds on the bus going through Rosen’s native Hackney, the self-justification of the Marxist intellectual turned OFSTED inspector, the primary head teacher who thinks her pupils have “”””no language””””, the voice of the policemen with the blood of Blair ...read more