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A book about the North, Simon Armitage's North. Not Northumberland, or Humberside, or Newcastle, or even Lancashire - but that bit of Yorkshire where the M1 slashes across the M62, where Jarvis Cocker meets Geoffrey Boycott, Emily Bronte meets Ted Hughes, Peter Sutcliffe meets David Hockney. His subjects, described with affection, acerbicness, wit and inside knowledge, include a typical Saturday night out in West Yorkshire, Hebden Bridge - the hippy capital of the universe, watching Huddersfield Town on Saturday afternoon, the electrified east coast line, and so on.
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Simon Armitage was brought up in the village of Marsden, near Huddersfield,and continues to live nearby. He was born in 1963. After taking a degree at Portsmouth Polytechnic, he did an MA at Manchester University and worked as a probation officer.His first book ZOOM! (Bloodaxe, 1989) immediately made his reputation and he is widely regarded as Britain's finest young poet (now published by Faber). He broadcasts frequently on radio and tv.
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'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 '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 observamt' - Jonathan Raban, The Times Literary Supplement 'The salty prose of an original poetic voice' - Melvyn Bragg, Observer
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- PublisherPenguin Putnam~childrens Hc
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0670873004
- ISBN 13 9780670873005
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages256
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