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Where do you get your ideas from? What is a poem?
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Michael Rosen answers the questions "Where do you get your ideas from?","What is a poem?".
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    Where do you get your ideas from? What is a poem?
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  7. What is your favourite piece of work that you've written? What is your most treasured possession?
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