Selected Poems

By Michael Rosen

Michael Rosen's Selected Poems is a wonderfully moving sequence of prose poems extracted from his acclaimed autobiographical triptych Carrying the Elephant This is Not My Nose and In the Colonie. In a series of artful deceptively simple poems Rosen covers a vast terrain collating vivid and fragmentary memories from his left-wing Jewish upbringing his teenage holiday at a socialist summer camp in France his London childhood and the death of his eighteen-year-old son from meningitis. He takes in along the way marriage divorce births and the undiagnosed illness (an underactive thyroid) from which Rosen suffered for ten years.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0141024550
• ISBN13: 9780141024554
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Penguin UK
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.6" x 5.1"