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Michael Rosen is one of the best-loved poets and writers for children, and a constant friend and supporter of Newham Bookshop over many years. His poems for grown-ups are less well known and Don’t Mention the Children is his first collection since Selected Poems in 2007.
Fans of his children’s books will enjoy the way these new poems combine the silly and the sinister to catch the surrealism of everyday life, somewhere between Jacques PreĢvert, Ivor Cutler and Adrian Mitchell. Few poets writing today can move so effortlessly between childishness and childlike seriousness. But at the heart of the book is a remarkable series of poems about anti-Semitism, fascism and war, connecting the contemporary world—UKIP, Marine le Pen, Palestine (the title poem refers to the refusal of the Israeli broadcasting authorities to mention the names of children killed during the Israeli shelling of Gaza in 2014)—to the lives of Rosen’s parents and grandparents—the General Strike, the Battle of Cable Street, Vichy and Auschwitz.
The Wanstead Tap is in a railway arch underneath London Overground. The nearest station is Wanstead Park.
Watch videos of Michael Rosen reading from his collection of poems for adults, Don’t Mention the Children.
Details of the book.
Alex Marshall, author of Republic or Death!, recently talked about his book at The Wanstead Tap, and gave a 15-minute talk on National Pride on the BBC Radio 4 series Four Thought. Click here to listen. Click here for details of the book.
Independent bookshops were recognised by Penguin Random House for their window displays and events celebrating the publication on 14 July of Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee. Newham Bookshop won the East of England award for its late-night event at The Wanstead Tap, where the 1962 film of To Kill a Mockingbird was screened before the books were sold just after midnight.