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‘Good and Strange’
MICHAEL ROSEN talks to Andy Croft about his new book of poems and the ideas behind them
by Marwa Paikan
A misfit couple unhappily ever after, a dead man walking, dodgy journos, and trench art trucking
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PAUL DONOVAN applauds an intriguing multi-layered depiction, dominated by a stunning impersonation of Marilyn herself
EWAN CAMERON marvels at the impossible ambition, realised with dreamlike finesse of translating Italo Calvino to the stage
TONY BURKE speaks to JOEL McIVER, co-author of the biography of bluesman John Mayall
MICHAEL ROSEN is one of our best-loved writers for children. He’s the author and editor of over 140 books, including contemporary primary-school classics like We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, Mind Your Own Business, No Breathing in Class and Quick Let’s Get Out of Here.
If you’re a fan of Rosen’s children’s stories, you’ll enjoy the way the works in his new book of poems for grown-ups Don’t Mention the Children combine the silly and the sinister. Somewhere between Jacques Prevert, Ivor Cutler and Adrian Mitchell, they encapsulate the surrealism of everyday life.
Few poets writing today can move so effortlessly between the childish and the childlike. But this certainly does not mean that Rosen doesn’t have serious things to say.
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