# Selected Poems

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- Book: [Selected Poems](https://www.bookquiver.com/michael-rosen/selected-poems) ([Selected Poems.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/michael-rosen/selected-poems.md))
- Authors: [Michael J. Rosen](https://www.bookquiver.com/michael-rosen)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4191-218-9
- Published: 2007-04-26
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

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.