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Walking Home: A Poet's Journey

Walking Home: A Poet's Journey

Armitage, Simon

Paperback

Travel GeneralTravel WritingGreat Britain

ISBN10: 0871407434
ISBN13: 9780871407436
Publisher: Liveright Pub Corp
Published: Mar 24 2014
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
The wandering poet has always been a feature of our cultural imagination. Odysseus journeys home, his famous flair for storytelling seducing friend and foe. The Romantic poets tramped all over the Lake District searching for inspiration. Now Simon Armitage, with equal parts enthusiasm and trepidation, as well as a wry humor all his own, has taken on Britain's version of our Appalachian Trail: the Pennine Way. Walking the backbone of England by day (accompanied by friends, family, strangers, dogs, the unpredictable English weather, and a backpack full of Mars Bars), each evening he gives a poetry reading in a different village in exchange for a bed. Armitage reflects on the inextricable link between freedom and fear as well as the poet's place in our bustling world. In Armitage's own words, to embark on the walk is to surrender to its lore and submit to its logic, and to take up a challenge against the self.

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