Many Different Kinds of Love: A story of life, death and the NHS

Really enjoyed Michael’s story and my what a story it is. A man forever altered by his experience of catching and recovering from Covid-19. He didn’t die (hurrah!) and now he must learn to live again, fundamentally changed. You will cry and laugh reading this book, the entries by the NHS staff who cared for him are truly touching. It feels a little unfinished when it ends, which is perhaps just as it should be. Thanks to our wonderful NHS, Michael still has many more stories to tell.

Possibly there most affecting collection I have read.I wanted to read this as I have suffered from long covid for a year and was ill at the same time at Michael Rosen (although not as ill). The collection is so powerful and moving, particularly his poems to his wife. It was a joy to read.

Such a beautiful book by a beautiful man. I watched absorbed and transfixed as a poet had 200 odd adults, students at LSU in Southampton in 1989 or 90, all going on a bear hunt! The book arrived at about 1:00pm I read it in about three hours. Delightful? Yes delightful. I knew the ending, BUT I’m not 74 I’m 65 and I cried, I smiled and I laughed. And I’m very, very, very happy that Michael Rosen is still hunting, maybe not bears, but stories in the strangest of places. Shlum Michael.

What a remarkable insight into Covid hospitalisation, NHS care, family experience, love and the recovery process. Thank you Michael Rosen for writing this for all of us. It’s a beautiful, uplifting and funny read. What an achievement so soon into your recovery. Everyone should read this.

.. and to be grateful to the nhs, remembering that so many more people died because of Boris' inability to make up his mind that people are more important than profits, and so in the end, being responsible for far more suffering both to those who caught the disease and to those struggling to make a livelihood than might have been inevitable, had he acted promptly as some other countries did and as he was advised to do.The nhs, Rosen's family and especially Rosen himself, are to be applauded for their immense courage, devotion and humour.