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From the back of the book:

Kid gives us one of the liveliest poetic voices to have emerged in the last ten years. Simon Armitage's inspired ear for the demotic and his ability to deal with subjects that many poets turn their backs on have marked him as a poet of originality and force.

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Taking to the Ipswich Meet tomorrow!

Picked up at today's Ipswich meeting. I need to read more poetry.

Quirky and enjoyable.

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Taken to Ipswich meeting.

Apologies for the delay, I picked this up from Caffe Nero some time last week. I read some Simon Armitage recently (pocket penguin) and liked his northern ''accent'', wit and humour. This looks good :)

(18/03) I like some poetry, in small doses, and I like the tone and language of Armitage’s writing...but it all tends to wash over me, mostly forgettable, but an enjoyable experience nonetheless. My DD went to an English seminar where SA spoke, and she said he was very funny, and I imagine he can and would read his own work better than I can read it ;)

A snippet of the title pome, about growing up and releasing childhood attachments (I think!):

‘Batman, big shot, when you gave the order
to grow up, then let me loose to wander
leeward, freely through the wild blue yonder...’

Thank you all for sharing, now ready to pass on

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Taking along to today's meet-up

I have enjoyed previous selections of Simon Armitage's poety, so I'm looking forward to this one. Funny to see how this little book can't resist attending get-togethers at the Caffe Nero in Ipswich. Like me, it keeps popping back...

I've returned to this one a couple of times, read and re-read the poems, but the majority passed straight over my head.It's all too clever for me :-) I couldn't quite follow why an odd little man called Mr Robinson kept popping up. He seemed to be a recurring theme, but didn't actually link the poems in any coherent way. I guess I'll be returning to Pam Ayres...

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Somewhere in the Queen Elizabeth Hall.