All Points North de Simon Armitage

All Points North: the bestselling memoir from the new Poet Laureate

Simon Armitage

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 mai 2009

'A joy. Celebrates the real world and revels in its mad glory' Sue Townsend,Sunday Times
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All Points Northis 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

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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 theSunday TimesYoung Writer of the Year. HisSelected Poemsappeared in 2001, and in 2007 he published a highly praised translation ofSir Gawain and the Green Knight. He received an Ivor Novello Award for his song lyrics in the BAFTA-winning filmFeltham 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.

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A joy. Celebrates the real world and revels in its mad glory
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 salty prose of an original poetic voice
A thoughtful, witty combination of travel writing, autobiography and Alan Bennett-style diary
Laugh-out-loud funny. . . has all the resonant precision of a poet's ear and eye
An original and talented writer . . . highly entertainingand there are flashes of wit and moments of tenderness and brilliantly accurate observation
The best book I have read in a long time on what he insists is the true North of England
A delight - high-spirited, light-footed, very funny and wickedly observamt

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