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Selected Poems
Michael Rosen
  • Published: 30 July 2007
  • ISBN: 9780141912189
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 144
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Selected Poems

  • Michael Rosen



Michael Rosen is published alongside Brian Patten as part of the acclaimed Penguin Selected series. In 2006, this included Geoffrey Hill, Roger McGough and Derek Mahon.

Michael Rosen's Selected Poems is a wonderfully moving sequence of prose poems extracted from his acclaimed autobiographical triptych, Carrying the Elephant, This is Not My Nose and In the Colonie. In a series of artful, deceptively simple poems, Rosen covers a vast terrain, collating vivid and fragmentary memories from his left-wing Jewish upbringing, his teenage holiday at a socialist summer camp in France, his London childhood and the death of his eighteen-year-old son from meningitis. He takes in, along the way, marriage, divorce, births and the undiagnosed illness (an underactive thyroid) from which Rosen suffered for ten years.

  • Published: 30 July 2007
  • ISBN: 9780141912189
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 144
Categories: