Simon Armitage's Seeing Stars is without any doubt the most entertaining book of poetry I've read for quite some time. That might sound a bit like faint praise, but I'm not implying that the volume is without other sterling qualities. It's just that I've come to regard the provision of entertainment as a quality that should rank very high in our assessment of any work.
It's rare to come across a collection of poems in which you are guaranteed to laugh out loud at least once on every page, but this is the one.
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