Neither Nowt Nor Summat by Ian McMillan - ISBN: 9780091959968
Paperback
Is he Yorkshire enough? A hilarious journey to find out.

Neither Nowt Nor Summat

In search of the meaning of Yorkshire

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  • Paperback

    352 pages

  • Release Date

    15 June 2016

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Summary

A glorious ramble around Yorkshire from one of our best loved poets

“I’m going to define the essence of this sprawling place as best I can. I’m going to start here, in this village, and radiate out like a ripple in a pond. I don’t want to go to the obvious places, either; I want to be like a bus driver on my first morning on the job, getting gloriously lost, turning up where I shouldn’t. I’m going to confirm or deny the cliches, holding them up to see where the light gets in. Yorkshir…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780091959968
ISBN-10:0091959969
Author:Ian McMillan
Publisher:Ebury Publishing
Imprint:Ebury Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:352
Release Date:15 June 2016
Weight:239g
Dimensions:198mm x 126mm x 21mm
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Critics Review

A force of nature

A love letter to Yorkshire … enjoyably so – Book of the Week * Daily Mail *
A force of nature * Guardian *
Inching towards the status of a national treasure – Andy Kershaw
World-class – one of today’s greatest poetry performers – Carol Ann Duffy
With McMillan, you feel a draught coming from the blast of fresh air blowing through the dusty cobwebs that festoon most literary programmes – Sue Arnold * Observer *
A love letter to Yorkshire…enjoyably so * Daily Mail, Book of the Week *
all seen through insightful eyes, a weighty pen and told with an appealing sense of humour * Choice *

About The Author

Ian McMillan

Ian McMillan was born in 1956 in Darfield, a village near Barnsley, where he still lives. He always wanted to be a writer but all the books he got out of the library were written by people who lived in Surrey, not the Yorkshire Coalfield. He attended North Staffordshire Polytechnic, was a drummer in Barnsley’s first folk-rock band and worked in a tennis ball factory before finally becoming a writer. He’s been poet in residence at Barnsley Football Club, Northern Spirit Trains and Humberside Police. He’s written comedy for radio and plays for the stage. He currently presents The Verb, Radio 3’s Cabaret of The Word, and has also worked extensively for Radios 1,2,4 and Five Live as well as for Yorkshire Television and BBC2’s Newsnight Review. He’s worked in schools, theatres, arts centres, fields and front rooms.

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