Editions

All Points North

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780141040462

  • Length: 256  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 16mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 181g

  • RRP: £9.99

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
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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

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780141040462

  • Length: 256  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 16mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 181g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • 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

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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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