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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (6 May 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140262385
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140262384
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 175,876 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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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4.0 out of 5 stars It's Not So Grim Up North, 20 Jan 2000
In this brilliantly timed and executed departure from poetry Simon Armitage has opened up his private world like a wound for all to examine. The result is one of the most precise and poignantly written declarations of Northerness since Lancashire last won the County Championship. In a series of short but descriptive chapters Armitage conjures up a world far removed from the cloth cap and whippet image of Northern England and instead gives us an insight into recording for the BBC, watching Huddersfield Town and commuting across the tops into deepest Oldham. This is a book with a decidedly local humour with plenty of "in" jokes which will soar 747 like over the heads of anyone not born within a 50 mile radius of Marsden. It will infuriate the cognosenti of Camden and Hampstead and I love this book all the more for that fact alone.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Needs to be read with an open mind - reviewers think on!, 20 Feb 2008
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I have to confess to being slightly alarmed and very disappointed by some of the Amazon reviews of this book. There is no doubt that Armitage has a great way with both poetry and prose - I have taught his poems at GCSE for several years and have heard him give readings which never fail to amuse and make me chuckle wryly at the vagaries of life. The reason I am concerned is the way that people have depicted life in The North of England - I grew up in Sussex and only moved to Sheffield in 1996 - after over a decade here I can honestly say that I would never move back down South. I encountered far more 'parochialism' as a 'Southerner' and a Grammar school education in Tunbridge Wells left me in no doubt as to the inherent ignorance and small-mindedness of many in the 'Home Counties'.
Armitage depicts the kind of daftness, naivety and sheer buffoonery that is encountered from John O' Groats to Land's End - but he does it through the eyes of an intelligent individual who is utterly at ease with himself and his upbringing. One of the best parts is Simon's recounting of an amateur dramatics staging of 'Camelot' and the all-male cast's sheer enjoyment and unfettered enthusiasm from start to finish. It does help that I know many of the places mentioned - I have family in Marsden too - but even without this I can recommend 'All points North' as a great read and perhaps even an eye-opener for anyone who claims knowledge of life beyond Birmingham.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Funny, wry and wonderful., 7 Jul 2001
This book was so enjoyable I was - almost - prepared to forgive Simon Armitage being born on the wrong side of the Pennines. He brings his poet's ear to the world he inhabits, and shows it to us in a loving way. I too had the advantage of a degree of cultural familiarity, being one of them 'Northerners', but it was when he moved away from the tales of pub quizzes and cricket crowds, and dissected architecture, or life on a film set, that Simon Armitage really began to soar. Couldn't recommend it more!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Hit the North!
Read this book some time ago now and it has a very important message that viewing yourself as Northerner is a positive statement. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Neil

5.0 out of 5 stars A delight - very original
This book is a collection of prose, poems and snatches of news reports capturing the essence of all things northern, more specifically all things Yorkshire. Read more
Published on 20 Feb 2005 by Paul Richard

4.0 out of 5 stars A bit southern for me
As a hardened northerner from County Durham, to hear West Yorkshire described as anything other than south was a great surprise to me. Read more
Published on 26 Dec 2003 by superken10

5.0 out of 5 stars It Almost Makes Me...But Not Quite
Okay, I'll be honest: I HATE the North of England with quite a passion. I lived the first two years of my life in Liverpool and the last fifteen in W Yorkshire. Read more
Published on 30 Jun 2002 by Lizzy

5.0 out of 5 stars from "button sculptures" to football...
Excellent background reading for anyone studying Armitage at school-level, gcses in particular (well i found it useful! Read more
Published on 5 Aug 2000

5.0 out of 5 stars It's funny for Southerners too !
I had never had heard of this poet/author either, but since my wife is from Huddersfield and I love it up there I had to buy it. Read more
Published on 18 Nov 1999

2.0 out of 5 stars It may be funny for a Northerner
Unfortunately, I had not heard of Simon Armitage, and have little knowledge of things Northern, which left me unable to grasp many of the jokes & missed many of the funny... Read more
Published on 22 Jul 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars Compassion and humour combine in this unique Yorkshire tour
Simon Armitage has already made a name for himself as a poet. Well-known as presenter of Radio 4's Stanza, and to devotees of Mark Radcliffe's former Radio 1 evening show, his... Read more
Published on 23 Jun 1999

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