The Universal Home Doctor - Hardcover

Armitage, Simon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0571215335 ISBN 13: 9780571215331

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2002

Synopsis

Sean O'Brien has described Simon Armitage as 'the first poet of serious artistic intent since Philip Larkin to have achieved popularity . . . it is possible that he will attain the sort of proverbial status Larkin now occupies.' It is a view that can be underwritten by the poems in this wonderful collection.

As the title implies, Armitage's flesh-and-blood account of numerous personal journeys reads like a private encyclopaedia of emotion and health. Vivid and passionate, the poems range from the rain forests 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 in all its guises.

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Review:

'Armitage creates a muscular but elegant language of his own out of slangy, youthful, up-to-the-minute jargon and the vernacular of his native northern England. He combines this with an easily worn erudition, plenty of nous and the benefit of unblinkered experience to produce poems of moving originality.' Sunday Times

Book Description:

The Universal Home Doctor by Simon Armitage is a flesh-and-blood account of numerous personal journeys, which reads like a private encyclopaedia of emotion and health.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0571215335
• ISBN 13: 9780571215331
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 80