All Points North

Informationen zum Autor Simon Armitage Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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 - this title explores growing up and being Northern.

Product details

• Authors: Simon Armitage
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.05.2009
• EAN: 9780141040462
• ISBN: 978-0-14-104046-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, Autobiography: general, Yorkshire, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts, POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Places, Biography: arts & entertainment, Poetry by individual poets, Autobiography: writers, Biography: arts and entertainment, North West England, Publishing industry and journalism