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

The power of poetry

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

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

When I visit schools to read and talk about poetry there is often some sort of Q and A following … More

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

In 2007 Sue Dymoke, Andrew Lambirth and I got together and decided we were going to apply to the ESRC … More

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