Poem of rhythm biography of michael rosen
Hand on the window feel the rhythm of the rain..
Michael Rosen
Michael Rosen (b.
Hand on the bridge, feel the rhythm of the train.
1946) says he became a children’s poet by accident – “I thought I was being an ironic adult poet but children’s literature ‘claimed’ me”. He has since become a very well-known poet, for adults as well as children, and also writes plays; he has worked in television and radio too, in programmes from Home Truths to Playschool.
He is a winner of the Eleanor Farjeon Award for Children’s Literature and the National Literacy WOW Award, has received an honorary doctorate from the Open University, has an MA and Ph.D and is presently Professor of Children’s Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London.
From 2007-2009 he was Children’s Laureate. He has been involved in one way or another with more than a hundred books.
This recording, though, is taken from just three of those books: his Book of Nonsense, Even More Nonsense, and In the Colonie.
The first two are, indeed, full of Nonsense, as ti