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The Universal Home Doctor (Paperback)

by Simon Armitage (Author)
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  • Paperback: 1 pages
  • Publisher: Faber and Faber; New edition edition (19 May 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0571218601
  • ISBN-13: 978-0571218608
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12 x 0.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 803,782 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This flesh-and-blood account of numerous personal journeys reads like a private encyclopaedia of emotion and health. 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.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Clever and complex poetry with a very human heart, 4 Sep 2002
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To be honest giving marks out of five for poetry is fairly pointless; poetry's the most subjective thing there is.

There are thirty-five poems in this volume, on a variety of themes, some of which have eluded me. The ones I can make out involve travel to the rainforest (and all the attendant inoculations required), an attack on the patrons of the arts, and an awful lot of decorating. I have no idea what Simon Armitage has against Pampas Grass, but I wouldn’t like to be around to find out.

Of the ones I particularly like, “The Straight and Narrow” is a nice short poem about careers advisors, while my favourite in the book is probably “Butterflies” about the urge to drive as fast as possible over humpbacked-bridge type hill tops. Close to that is “The Wood for the Trees” a rain-forest poem with some lovely words evocating childhood night-terrors. While most of the poems are personal in scope, “The Twang” put into words things I’ve long felt about March the 17th.

I read the whole book through to my wife, and we never felt like skipping a poem, and even had the urge to repeat a couple straight away.

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