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Travelling Songs (Paperback)

by Simon Armitage (Author)
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  • Paperback: 32 pages
  • Publisher: Faber and Faber (19 Aug 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 057121536X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0571215362
  • Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 13 x 0.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 798,227 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The Universal Home Doctor, Simon Armitage's flesh-and-blood account of numerous personal journeys, reads like a private encyclopaedia of emotion and health. Vivid and engaged, the poems range from the rainforests of South America to the deserts of Western Australia, but are set against that ultimate and most intimate of all landscapes - the human body. Equally, the body politic comes into question, through subtle enquiries into Englishness and the idea of home. Simon Armitage once observed that there are two types of poems - those that try to work out the chemical equation for language, and those that tell stories and sing songs. The poems in Travelling Songs are very much the latter, a handful of lyrics and verses written over a number of years, many being commissioned to celebrate or commemorate public events, others being part of larger projects in theatre, radio and television. Erotic, witty, flippant, poignant and always melodic, Travelling Songs is a kind of busker's handbook, the kind of work that might win a poet a decent meal when singing for his supper.


About the Author

Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire in 1963. In 1992 he was a winner of one of the first Forward Prizes, and a year later was the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. He works as a freelance writer, broadcaster and playwright, and has written extensively for radio and television. Previous titles include Kid, Book of Matches, The Dead Sea Poems, Killing Time and CloudCuckooLand.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Chainsaws and Pampas Grass, 24 Jan 2003
By Kevin Morgan (N Ireland) - See all my reviews
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Not all lovers of music love all music; not all lovers of poetry love all poetry. In fact, for me, most poetry does nothing. The Universal Home Doctor by Simon Armitage is a brilliant exception - it is entertaining, hilarious, deep, accessible, and begs to be read and reread. There is never any attempt to be unnecessarily obscure. The Chainsaw Versus Pampas Grass - even the title draws the reader in - amazes with the perfection of its word choice; I'll let you sample its delights for yourself. I thoroughly recommend this to the reader who loves words, brilliant words, but hates poetry that attempts to be the Sunday Times Crossword.
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