Editions

Gig

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780141021249

  • Length: 336  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 21mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 246g

  • RRP: £9.99

Gig

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

'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

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780141021249

  • Length: 336  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 21mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 246g

  • RRP: £9.99

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

  • Extremely funny, brilliant

    Sunday Telegraph

  • Engaging, eccentric, hilarious, incredibly good company. A wonderwall of moments and memories . . . one of our most entertaining authors

    Independent

  • Very, very funny . . . the kind of book you'll want to press on your friends

    GQ

  • Witty, terrific, stupendously funny

    Daily Telegraph

  • Warm, funny . . . wonderfully accurate and evocative . . . we close the book wanting more

    Times Literary Supplement

  • Pitch perfect

    Financial Times

  • Funny, perceptive, thought-provoking. Armitage has a poet's eye for the poignant detail and the bigger theme

    Scotsman

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About the Author

Simon Armitage

Simon Armitage's Selected Poems appeared in 2001, and in 2007 he published a highly praised translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. He has written two volumes of memoir about living in the north for Penguin: All Points North and Gig. He lives in Huddersfield. Tim Dee is a BBC radio producer based in Bristol. He has written a highly acclaimed memoir of his birdwatching life, The Running Sky.

Simon Armitage

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