Michael Rosen 'very poorly' after night in intensive care

Michael Rosen’s family has said that the poet, broadcaster and author, who is suffering from suspected coronavirus, is “very poorly at the moment” but is stable and alert after a night in intensive care. Image of war hero biting on a hankie, while best mate plunges live charcoal into the wound to cauterise it,” he wrote on 22 March. In every corner.” As the hashtag #GetWellSoonMichael began to trend on Twitter on Monday night and Tuesday morning, his wife Emma-Louise Williams thanked the thousands of readers who had wished him well. “SO MUCH LOVE to Michael and to all of you, he is such a wonderful man who does so much good, I am fiercely willing for his swift recovery, and am delighted to hear he has moved from ICU on to a ward,” Cowell wrote on Twitter. Get well quickly please and thank our NHS for caring for usall!” Families on lockdown around the world have been finding inspiration in Rosen’s children’s book We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury, by putting teddy bears in their windows for children to spot on their daily walks and drawing comfort from the line: “We’re not scared.” Rosen, loved by children and teachers around the UK for poems including Chocolate Cake and Don’t, is also the author of the poem These Are the Hands, written for the 60th anniversary of the NHS.