Gig

Gig

The Life and Times of a Rock-star Fantasist – the bestselling memoir from the new Poet Laureate

Summary

'Extremely funny' Sunday Telegraph
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A poet is a rock star without the sex'n'drugs, or the rock'n'roll. But that never stopped Simon Armitage dreaming, and in Gig, he explores how music and the muse intertwine in work and in life. Crammed with stories, anecdotes, jokes, absurdities, the odd informal homily, pitfalls and pratfalls (not all the author's own), Yorkshire life and death, Gig is about the dream and reality of what you are, and what you might have been.
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'One of our most entertaining authors' Independent

'Very, very funny' GQ

'Witty, terrific, stupendously funny' Daily Telegraph


Reviews

  • I read this book in one sitting. It moved me to tears, to shouts of laughter, and made me look at even the most mundane things in a different way
    Sunday Times

About the author

Simon Armitage

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