So They Call You Pisher!: A Memoir

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Sprenger, Richard (10 April 2014). "We're Going on a Bear Hunt: 'The editors were so excited they were nearly weeping' – video". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 26 December 2016 . Retrieved 25 December 2016. Alumni Life – Institute of Education, University of London". Ioe.ac.uk. 19 January 2009. Archived from the original on 16 December 2012 . Retrieved 27 November 2012. a b "Chapter and verse: Michael Rosen on why it pays to study children's". Archived from the original on 14 May 2022 . Retrieved 10 June 2018.

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.” The subtitle of the book is 'life lessons on going under, getting over it and getting through it', which reminds me of the refrain in We're going on a Bear Hunt. 'Can't go around it Can't go over it Can't go under it We have to go through it.' Rosen is well established as a broadcaster, presenting a range of documentary features on British radio. He is the presenter of BBC Radio 4's regular magazine programme Word of Mouth, which looks at the English language and the way it is used. [20] They talk about the talking cure. Well, there is a sort of doing cure, too.’ The photo of Rosen’s son Eddie, who died unexpectedly in 1999, at the age of just 18. Photograph: Pål Hansen/The Observer Rosen, Michael (4 March 2006). "What's a story for?". Socialist Worker (1990). Archived from the original on 21 March 2006.

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Rosen has been married three times and has five children and two step-children. [72] His second son Eddie (1980–1999) died at the age of 18 from meningococcal septicaemia, and his death was the inspiration for Rosen's 2004 work Sad Book. [21] Rosen lives in North London [73] with his third wife, Emma-Louise Williams, and their two children. [74] [75] Since Covid, the vision in Rosen’s left eye has been impaired. His left ear is what he describes as “a dead loss”. Every now and then he will experience a sudden shooting pain that chases itself around his body – one moment it’s in the knee, then the shoulder, then the hip. (“Boing!” he says, “and it’s moved on.”) It has taken Rosen until recently to feel accepting of this new physical state. The body changes, he says, and the brain must catch up. Still, he seems sanguine about it all, particularly the eye. “I could wear a patch and it would be much better,” he says. “But do I want to walk around wearing a patch?” He shakes his head, thinking of the schoolchildren he sometimes reads his poems to. “I don’t fancy it.” It’s more than two years since he left hospital after a near-lethal battle with Covid Rosen was appointed the sixth British Children's Laureate in June 2007, succeeding Jacqueline Wilson, and held the honour until June 2009, when he was succeeded by Anthony Browne. Rosen signed off from the Laureateship with an article in The Guardian, in which he said: "Sometimes when I sit with children when they have the space to talk and write about things, I have the feeling that I am privileged to be the kind of person who is asked to be part of it". In 2007, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Exeter.

Creamer, Ella (28 June 2023). "Author Michael Rosen wins 2023 PEN Pinter prize for 'fearless' body of work". The Guardian. I wonder aloud why he has never previously told the story of Eddie’s death. Given what I’ve been through, I’ve done OK. If you were to mark it in terms of difficulty, I’m about a fiveRosen stood in the 2004 London Assembly Elections as a Respect Coalition candidate for the Londonwide list. [11] He is a supporter of the Republic campaign. [48] Rosen is chosen for laureate role". BBC News. BBC News Online. 11 June 2007. Archived from the original on 17 August 2007 . Retrieved 11 June 2007. Children's Laureate Michael Rosen receives Honorary Doctorate of Letters". Uel.ac.uk. 22 January 2008. Archived from the original on 8 January 2012 . Retrieved 23 February 2013. Mansfield, Susan (24 August 2007), "Poetry is the greatest teacher", The Scotsman, archived from the original on 10 September 2007 . Michael Rosen's interview, Onion Street, bbc.co.uk, archived from the original on 3 February 2003 , retrieved 30 June 2007 .

Many Different Kinds of Love: Life, Death, and the NHS by Michael Rosen is published by Ebury. He will also appear in 2020: The Story Of Us, ITV 9pm on 16 March. RCN awards Honorary Fellowship to Michael Rosen following powerful speech at Congress | News | Royal College of Nursing". 9 June 2022. Archived from the original on 9 November 2022 . Retrieved 13 June 2022.Sandhu, Sukhdev (23 September 2017). "So They Call You Pisher! by Michael Rosen review – Communism, Clive James and attitude". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 17 April 2023 . Retrieved 17 April 2023. In March 2021, Rosen released the book Many Different Kinds of Love: A Story of Life, Death and the NHS, an account of his experience being hospitalised with COVID-19 a year earlier, [30] including his own poem for the 60th anniversary of the NHS, "These are the Hands", [31] being pinned to his bed or wall. In April 2010, Rosen was given the Fred and Anne Jarvis Award from the National Union of Teachers for "campaigning for education". [60] In July 2010, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Nottingham Trent University. [61] He visits schools with this one-man show to enthuse children with his passion for books and poetry. In 2007, Rosen was appointed Children’s Laureate, a role which he held until 2009. While Laureate, he set up the Roald Dahl Funny Prize. Rosen with his wife Emma-Louise Williams, at their home in London. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian