New video for Early Years Just gone up on our YouTube Channel Enjoy Dogs! Rhyme Time for The Very Young Michael Rosen Rhyme Time youtu.be/jHdCtl8Hy7U?... via @YouTube

Online meeting to talk about the Battle of Cable Street. Please join us: www.tickettailor.com/events/moder...

Today's walk up Barrow in very windy conditions

This is one of four videos of poems for Gaza that I've written. All four are on this site. Free to watch anytime., www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFYM...

What do you say to a child who asks 'where is [person's name]?' after they've died? That's my question in my latest book, out tomorrow 'Where are you, Eddie?' @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social

Experience Ambleside and Grasmere without light pollution. Our annual Big Switch Off takes place on 19 March, encouraging businesses and residents to switch lights off to save electricity, reduce carbon and help wildlife. https://loom.ly/9X3U1iQ

I've updated my website. So click on 'Books' for my latest books; on 'News' for my latest news; on 'Events' for my upcoming appearances; on 'Blog' for my latest idea for you for writing. www.michaelrosen.co.uk

I’m sorry, what? How can Chelsea & Westminster Hospital’s official charity *possibly* accept a £1 million ‘donation’ - meaning, in reality, an attempt to buy public credibility - from the Sacklers? Yes, those Sacklers, whose company, Purdue Pharma, caused >800k deaths from pumping out opioids. 1/3

Weekend bookshop sunshine in Grasmere and new books flooding onto the bookshelves.

Very strong statement from the First Lady of Iraq:

Inviting path above Loweswater

This woman’s especially NSFW response to a pair of Reform UK canvassers just went wildly viral and it’s a supremely satisfying watch www.thepoke.com/2026/02/23/this-womans-especially-nsfw-response-to-a-pair-of-reform-uk-canvassers-just-went-wildly-viral-and-its-a-supremely-satisfying-watch/

there's a nugget here which helps to explain Brown's character and why he was so incensed by the allegations against Mandelson from their time in office

Although an Oscar winning actor, DiCaprio is shit at pretending he's happy as a loser.

#WutheringHeights Sweepcliff.

Friday afternoon bookshop, sunshine!

Today has been a massive day out in the hills from Glenriding to Helvellyn via Whiteside returned via Raise. Two sleeping dogs and im not sure I will be able walk tomorrow 😉 #landscapephotography #Helvellyn #lakedistrict #Whitefield #snow #winter #UK #cumbria

Wow.

A cold day in Coniston, but at least the snow stayed on the hills… for now.

Celebrating paperback publication day for @mwcraven.bsky.social's #TheFinalVow with a visit and signing. Catch your signed Final Vows and selected backlist on the shelves whilst you can! #ChooseBookshops #IndieBookshops #CumbriaCulture #CumbriaCrime #BookSky

Sad to see that Andrew Ranken has died. I never saw The Pogues but Andrew was the kind of player who would also crop up at The Klinker and elsewhere. As you might expect: a force of nature.

Remembering Gerry Goffin on his birthday. ✍️🩵 "When this old world starts getting me down And people are just too much for me to face I climb way up to the top of the stairs And all my cares just drift right into space On the roof, it's peaceful as can be And there the world below can't bother me"

Dry stone walls of Cumbria

Always great to see so many browsers out and about in Grasmere this time of the year.

CHEF (Palindrome) To pan idle, he held a ladle. He beheld a ladle he held in a pot.

‘But if only I could pray In the blaze of a northern bar’

She turns to confront him, 47 would have run. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Crags of Scafell Pike

It's happening Jim.

Got lucky. Wordle 1,675 3/6 🟨🟨🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

This IS the best one yet...

I think the White House badly underestimates the strength of the pan-European folk memory of 1930s appeasement, and how deep it still cuts. I suppose this is what happens when you learn in school that WW2 started in 1941 in Hawaii.

On #fingerpost Friday, just take a moment to imaging how much work, over how many years, has gone into this little corner of Lakeland.

Geordie broke my heart.

stars in the water, stars in the sea

Cape Cod Bay you might be born under such a sky

Elementary. Wordle 1,667 5/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

But he clearly does. 'Just meh, don’t care. Nothing will take away May 17, 2025. The highlight of what was a mostly forgettable year for me, but I’m not going to let football dictate 2026. ' #cpfc

Cape Cod: rising seas are changing these beaches, sculpting and eroding; this channel opened up to reveal a 19th century wreck, its mast just visible, like a distant sea monster

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...

#sophiefromromania welcomes home @rorycj.bsky.social

Reform UK's Tom Pickup, has been suspended by the party after posting in a far-right Whatsapp group where other members posted calls for Keir Starmer to be shot. Don't just like it, share it. national.thelead.uk/p/reform-wat...

Jeremy Bowen really is an outstanding broadcaster. He's a reminder that public service broadcasting can be objective and impartial without needing to be balanced - indeed that balance makes objectivity impossible. I imagine they'll get rid of him soon.

pleased to say I've written an essay for this leviathan of a volume