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All Points North: the bestselling memoir from the new Poet Laureate
Simon Armitage
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Description for All Points North: the bestselling memoir from the new Poet Laureate
Paperback. 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 - this title explores growing up and being Northern. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKEYK; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 180.
'A joy. Celebrates the real world and revels in its mad glory' Sue Townsend, Sunday Times
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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.
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'Laugh-out-loud funny' Independent
'A delight' Jonathan Raban, Times Literary Supplement
'A perfect holiday dipper' Scotsman
'An Alan Bennett-style diary' Daily Telegraph
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141040462
SKU
V9780141040462
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99
About Simon Armitage
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.
Reviews for All Points North: the bestselling memoir from the new Poet Laureate
A joy. Celebrates the real world and revels in its mad glory
Sue Townsend
Sunday Times
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
The Times
The salty prose of an original poetic voice
Melvyn Bragg
Observer
A thoughtful, witty combination of travel writing, autobiography and Alan Bennett-style diary
John-Paul Flintoff
Daily Telegraph
Laugh-out-loud funny . . . has all the resonant precision of a poet's ear and eye
Independent
An original and talented writer . . . highly entertaining and there are flashes of wit and moments of tenderness and brilliantly accurate observation
Vernon Scannell
Sunday Telegraph
The best book I have read in a long time on what he insists is the true North of England
Geoffrey Moorhouse
Daily Telegraph
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
The Times
The salty prose of an original poetic voice
Melvyn Bragg
Observer
Laugh-out-loud funny... has all the resonant precision of a poet's ear and eye
Independent
A delight - high-spirited, light-footed, very funny and wickedly observamt
Jonathan Raban
The Times Literary Supplement
A joy. Celebrates the real world and revels in its mad glory
Sue Townsend
Sunday Times
Sue Townsend
Sunday Times
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
The Times
The salty prose of an original poetic voice
Melvyn Bragg
Observer
A thoughtful, witty combination of travel writing, autobiography and Alan Bennett-style diary
John-Paul Flintoff
Daily Telegraph
Laugh-out-loud funny . . . has all the resonant precision of a poet's ear and eye
Independent
An original and talented writer . . . highly entertaining and there are flashes of wit and moments of tenderness and brilliantly accurate observation
Vernon Scannell
Sunday Telegraph
The best book I have read in a long time on what he insists is the true North of England
Geoffrey Moorhouse
Daily Telegraph
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
The Times
The salty prose of an original poetic voice
Melvyn Bragg
Observer
Laugh-out-loud funny... has all the resonant precision of a poet's ear and eye
Independent
A delight - high-spirited, light-footed, very funny and wickedly observamt
Jonathan Raban
The Times Literary Supplement
A joy. Celebrates the real world and revels in its mad glory
Sue Townsend
Sunday Times