MANY DIFFERENT KINDS OF LOVE: LIFE, DEATH AND THE NHS BY MICHAEL ROSEN Simon Smith In one poem the speaker

In one poem the speaker “forgets the Urdu / word for loneliness

‘Clarke has found rich pickings in the landfill

Vona Groarke’s Selected Poems was praised as a ‘collection of almost sublime purity’ (Dublin Review of Books)

the Jeremiad

and explains why it retains its vertiginous originality and continues to speak to us across the generations

MANY DIFFERENT KINDS OF LOVE: LIFE, DEATH AND THE NHS BY MICHAEL ROSEN Simon Smith In one poem the speakerA national treasure's journey to the brink and back. 'Will I wake up?' 'There's a 50: 50 chance.' Michael Rosen wasn't feeling well. Soon he was struggling to breathe, and then he was admitted to hospital, suffering from coronavirus as the nation teetered on the edge of a global pandemic. What followed was months on the wards: six weeks in an induced coma, and many more weeks of rehab and recovery as the NHS saved Michael's life, and then got him back