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Michael Rosen

The Guardian

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My island of strangers: a poem

17.05.2025 400

The Guardian

Michael Rosen

My shirts reeked of onions; my father hated the ‘phoney Tudor windows’. That flat will always mean home

It’s odd – and revealing – that 62 years after leaving the north London flat where I was brought up, I still think of it as home. I can still...

24.12.2024 10

The Guardian

Michael Rosen

Miss Pope, my science teacher, would have approved of music and ice lollies in class. Exams aren’t the only way to learn

My father used to tell us a story from when he supervised students training to be teachers. He was sitting in a school staffroom waiting for a...

23.08.2024 30

The Guardian

Michael Rosen