Author: Simon Armitage
Title: All Points North
Description: Penguin 2009 Paperback, 256pp. "'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 TimesAll 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 . has all the resonant precision of a poet's ear and eye' Independent 'A delight - high-spirited, light-footed, very funny and wickedly observant' Jonathan Raban, The Times Literary Supplement'The salty prose of an original poetic voice' Melvyn Bragg, Observer, Books of the YearWhy not also read the companion?Gig ", (ISBN: 9780141040462). Very Good.

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