'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
All Points North : the bestselling memoir from the new Poet Laureate
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Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire in 1963. In 1992 he won one of the first Forward Prizes for poetry, and a year later was the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. His Selected Poems appeared in 2001, and in 2007 he published a highly praised translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. He received an Ivor Novello Award for his song lyrics in the BAFTA-winning film Feltham Sings.
Simon Armitage works as a freelance writer, broadcaster and playwright, and has written extensively for radio and television. He was made Poet Laureate in 2019.