![]() Many Different Kinds of Love by Michael Rosen is published by Ebury Press (£14.99). He does not say it but let us hope he can do it soon and leave Covid-19 behind him. “I am sorry this is me.”īut he has a new-won philosophy, learned the hard way:Īnd after getting home, the physios (anyone who has been in the marvellously pushy hands of NHS physios will recognise Rosen’s account of them) ask about his long-term objectives. He wishes his family need not see him in an abject state. Rosen is more sorry about than for himself. In a particularly brilliant sketch, Rosen’s body appears like a senseless hammock enclosed by darkness. Chris Riddell’s illustrations do not avoid the void. He describes what it is to feel like no one – reduced to a bag of bones, his hearing in one ear shot, his left eye not functioning, his toes in trouble. ![]() Yet he also makes it clear how eviscerating his experience has been. He even playfully gives his walking stick a name: “Sticky McStickstick”. PLEIADIAN LIGHT FORCES TRANSMISSIONS CREATING A BETTER WORLD FOR ALL HUMANITY CHANNELED BY MICHAEL LOVE PRESENTED BY THE EARTH ALLIANCE, 2019 PLEIADIANLIGHTFORCESGMAIL. He is, for all his erudition, still the little boy for whom bodily functions – bottoms, scabs, earwax – jolly things along. Recovery itself means feeling alien, although described with Rosenesque humour. What is striking in this book (and it says something about the universal experience of the pandemic) is that everyone appears to be outside their element – this is Covid-19’s coup. His nurses in intensive care included physios and speech therapists working outside their comfort zones. It sounds unscientific but I’ve learnt to trust this instinct in life and in medicine.” Rosen barely got out of his house alive and was rushed in the car by his wife, Emma-Louise Williams, to A&E. “I had a gut feeling…” she writes, “that I had to do something more. She intuited something was dangerously wrong even when 111 had advised him to stay at home. His GP “Dr Katie” also contributes a written account. ![]() Keep fighting.” These diaries – impossible to read without a lump in the throat – are rivalled only by his poem about the NHS, These Are the Hands, which was written before he became ill and then pinned above his hospital bed like a thank you letter in advance to the nurses who would save his life.Ī page from Michael Rosen’s new book, illustrated by Chris Riddell. One nurse offers: “I have two boys (four and two) and we sing Bear Hunt wherever we go. They resemble kindly school reports about someone who cannot read, write or breathe. He was in ICU, in an induced coma, for 48 days, and this part of the book is necessarily made up of nurses’ diaries. The obvious challenge of the new book is that it includes a colossal gap over which he has no control: a report on what he cannot remember. The spaciousness in his imagination amounts to a vote of confidence in his readers, whether ancient or juvenile, to mind the gaps ( Sad Book, exploring his grief after his 18-year-old son Eddie died of meningitis, is a particularly eloquent example of this). Want to be part of Michal’s online music community? Join the Music with Michal Club! Subscribers enjoy weekly live online music sessions, regular podcasts, opportunities to requests songs and suggest ideas, and VIP access to behind the scenes content.Rosen’s talent as a writer has always been in seeing that less is more. #Mical of love seriesMichal has released two albums over the past two years which are streamed around the world! Can You Make Music? in 2021 and Summer Days in 2022. She has also released a series of videos helping children name, express and explore their emotions. Four of her songs have also become beloved children’s books featuring captivating illustrations by local artist Andy Knopp. Recently Michal was nominated for Children’s Artist of the Year, and her song ‘Brave’ won ‘Best Children’s Song’ at the 2021 New Zealand Children’s Music Awards. Her songs are a perfect blend of silly and meaningful, fun and heartfelt and are guaranteed to put a smile on the faces of children and grown ups alike. Michal Bush, a mother of three young girls, has been writing music for children since her eldest daughter was born in 2012. Music with Michal is an award winning Songwriter, Author and Performer from Christchurch, New Zealand. Best known for the popular ‘Kindness is Free’, ‘Seagull Song’ and ‘Brave’ – Michal’s music is sung in schools and early childhood centres all over New Zealand, and streamed in homes and radio stations all over the world! JOIN THE MUSIC WITH MICHAL CLUB Kids Music that Grown Ups Love Too! ![]()
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