Listening to a Pogrom on the Radio: Poems

by Michael Rosen

A book about anti-Semitism, racism, Fascism and war, Trump, le Pen, and the Tory assaults on the NHS and education - the stupid and the sinister, the ridiculous and the revolting. In his first collection for grown-ups since Don't Mention the Children (2015), Michael Rosen confirms his reputation as the heir to Jacques Prvert, Ivor Cutler, and Adrian Mitchell. Few poets writing today can move so effortlessly between childishness and childlike seriousness, or dare to ask, like the child in Hans Christian Andersen's story, why the silly emperor is not wearing any clothes.

Genres: Poetry

152 pages, Paperback

Published December 31, 2017

About the author

Michael Rosen, a recent British Children’s Laureate, has written many acclaimed books for children, including WE'RE GOING ON A BEAR HUNT, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury, and I’M NUMBER ONE and THIS IS OUR HOUSE, both illustrated by Bob Graham. Michael Rosen lives in London.

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Reviews

[Charlotte Kelly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hugely underrated. People mostly know him for his childrens poems, but the political poems/prose in here is Michael Rosen at his absolute best.