Ads do free verse these days

Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 Possibly one of the worst jobs in any zoo.

Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 Hope you wear them with grey socks.

Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 The holes in crocs are so that your dignity can seep out when you wear them 😉

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My offspring gave me a birthday card with a picture of a pair of crocs on it and the words (written large) 'Croc Wanker' on it.
#cruel

'Let's discuss how we share this pizza.'
'Sure, how about you have this piece and I have....hang on you've started eating the pizza.'
'Of course I have. It's my pizza.'

Life and learning at Stratford Literary Festival... what a joy to Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 The RSC stratford-herald.com/news/life-and-…

“A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it.”

– Dylan Thomas #DylanDay #InternationalDylanThomasDay

Ian Duhig FRSL How many Macbeths does it take to change a lightbulb?
He can't find the lightbulb because he's just blown out the candle.

How many Dylan Thomases does it take to change a lightbulb?

None. They’d rather rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Happy #DylanThomasDay

Happy birthday to the Welsh powerhouse of an actress, Sian Phillips who was born on this day in Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen in 1933. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #SianPhillios #GwaunCaeGurwen #IClaudius #HowGreenWasMyValley #GoodbyeMrChips #MurphysWar #TinkerTailorSoldierSpy #SmileysPeople #Dune #Nijinsky

Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 James Durran The Pinner Association has organised a poetry competition for three of our local schools. The winners will be announced in the next Villager magazine.

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This comes out on June 1: tweet-poems, taken from here on Twitter/X.
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I shall be interested in your analysis! As a primary school governor, and a former Secondary English teacher, I was monitoring the administration of the tests yesterday!

‘The world can be a terrible place but at the same time it is wonderful, beautiful…In a desperate world writing is an act of hope, of optimism’ inspiring talk by David Almond OBE on the creation of his fantastic new book #Puppet Waterstones Covent Garden Walker Books