Last year MPT Magazine published a brilliant edition wholly dedicated to children’s poetry (Number 2, 2015), titled I Wish…
It was one of my personal highlights of the last twelve months.
Here is a Soundcloud recording of Michael Rosen in conversation with Russian poet Marina Boroditskaya, chaired by Sasha Dugdale, about how poetry is used and presented in current curricular orders in England.
It is provocative and political, funny and sad, all at once.
Make yourself a large pot of coffee and enjoy.
Published by Anthony Wilson
I am a lecturer, poet and writing tutor. I work in teacher and medical education at the University of Exeter. My anthology Lifesaving Poems was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2015. In 2012 I published Riddance (Worple Press), a collection of poems, and Love for Now (Impress Books), a memoir, about my experience of cancer. The Wind and the Rain, my sixth collection of poems, is available now from Blue Diode Publishing. My current research project, funded by the Foyle Foundation, is Young Poets' Stories: https://youngpoetsstories.com/. This blog is archived by the British Library.
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