All Points North: the bestselling memoir from the new Poet Laureate
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‘A joy. Celebrates the real world and revels in its mad glory’ Sue Townsend, Sunday Times_____________________________________All Points North is part-memoir and part-excursion. Charting the rugged and uneven terrain of a writer’s formative years – from tax problems to probation to American tours, football to family to running away to Iceland – Simon Armitage explores growing up and being Northern. It’s about humour, language, writing, film, houses, homes, time wasters, one loose tyre, you, me and all points in-between._____________________________________’Laugh-out-loud funny’ Independent’A delight’ Jonathan Raban, Times Literary Supplement ‘A perfect holiday dipper’ Scotsman’An Alan Bennett-style diary’ Daily Telegraph
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Weight | 0.18 kg |
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Dimensions | 1.6 × 12.9 × 19.7 cm |
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Format | Paperback |
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Pages | 256 |
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Year Published | 2009-5-28 |
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Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
ISBN 10 | 0141040467 |
About The Author | Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire in 1963. In 1992 he won one of the first Forward Prizes for poetry, and a year later was the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. His Selected Poems appeared in 2001, and in 2007 he published a highly praised translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. He received an Ivor Novello Award for his song lyrics in the BAFTA-winning film Feltham Sings. Simon Armitage works as a freelance writer, broadcaster and playwright, and has written extensively for radio and television. He was made Poet Laureate in 2019. |
A joy. Celebrates the real world and revels in its mad glory |
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Other text | I was irresistibly reminded of Alan Bennett – there is the same wry humour, wonderfully telling selection of detail or remark . . . a fine balance of humour and poignancy |
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