The Universal Home Doctor

Armitage, Simon; Roberts Sue

ISBN 10: 0571215335 / ISBN 13: 9780571215331

Published by Faber & Faber Poetry, 2002

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A Near Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Universal Home Doctor
• Publisher: Faber & Faber Poetry
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571215335
• ISBN 13: 9780571215331
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

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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.

About the Author

Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire and is Professor of Poetry at the University of Sheffield. A recipient of numerous prizes and awards, he has published eleven collections of poetry, including Seeing Stars (2010), Paper Aeroplane: Selected Poems 1989-2014 (2014) and his acclaimed translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2007). He also writes extensively for television and radio, and is the author of two novels and the non-fiction bestsellers All Points North (1998), Walking Home (2012) and Walking Away (2015). His theatre works include The Last Days of Troy, performed at Shakespeare's Globe in 2014. In 2015 he was appointed Professor of Poetry at Oxford University.