Controlling how poetry is read: Michael Rosen in conversation with Marina Boroditskaya, via Modern Poetry in Translation

In the last year, another government initiative has created a compulsory part of the curriculum: learning poetry by heart … More

Lifesaving Poems: Tania Hershman’s ‘By Any Other Name’

By Any Other Name First, he called her My Little Aubergine as if she was … More

A speech given at the NATE annual conference, June 2014 My early poetic experiences were not ‘poetic’ at … More

The value of poetry is that it should matter … first to the writer and then to the reader. Michael … More

Photo credit: Felix Clay, The Guardian Heard I can’t remember a time in my teaching career when there wasn’t … More

In the Desert Knowing Nothing Here I am in the desert knowing nothing, here I am knowing nothing in … More

When I speak to trainee primary school teachers about their views of poetry I am often struck by their divergent … More

I once saw Michael Rosen teach a theatre full of tearfully happy children and adults these wonderful nonsense word games … More

I I first came across e e cummings’s ‘in Just’ in an anthology, Wordscapes, edited by Barry Maybury (OUP, 1971). … More

I was struck by a remark of Seamus Heaney in an interview he gave some years ago now. He was … More