Child Bereavement UK has partnered with Getting Through It, a powerful, one-person show by poet and author Michael Rosen. Showing at theatres this year, it is formed of a double bill of monologues: The Death of Eddie and Many Kinds of Love.

In The Death of Eddie, Michael recounts the death of his son from meningitis at the age of 18. In Many Kinds of Love, Michael recalls how he contracted COVID-19 and spent 48 days in intensive care, where he was put into an induced coma and was told he had a 50% chance of dying.

Jane Keightley, Director of Marketing, Communications and Content at Child Bereavement UK said: 

“Child Bereavement UK is delighted to partner with Michael Rosen’s Getting Through It tour. Michael explores the death of his son Eddie, and his own mortality, with raw but unsentimental honesty. He has a unique ability to convey relatable truths about subjects most people find unbearable to contemplate with his trademark warmth, simplicity and humour. It is a show that talks about grief, love and loss with insight and humanity in a way that is powerful and extraordinary.”

Michael Rosen has written more than 200 books for children and adults including the highly acclaimed We’re Going on a Bearhunt, and has explored grief following the death of his son Eddie in Carrying the Elephant: A Memoir of Love and Loss; Getting Better; and Sad Book. 

Edinburgh | Edinburgh Lyceum Thursday 29 January 2026, 7.30pm Mold | Theatr Clwyd Sunday 8 February, 7.45pm Liverpool | Liverpool Playhouse Wednesday 22 April, 7.30pm