Book description
A poet is a rock star without the sex'n'drugs, or the rock'n'roll. But
that never stopped Simon Armitage dreaming, and in
Gig
, he explores how music and the muse intertwine in work and in life.
Crammed with stories, anecdotes, jokes, absurdities, the odd informal
homily, pitfalls and pratfalls (not all the author's own), Yorkshire
life and death, Gig
is about the dream and reality of what you are, and what you might have
been. Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire in 1963, and continues
to live near Huddersfield. He is one of the leading writers of his
generation. He has won the Sunday Times
author of the year, the Forward Prize, a Lannan Award, and an Ivor
Novello Award for his song lyrics in the Channel 4 film, Feltham Sings
