Walking Home: A Poet's Journey

Walking Home: A Poet's Journey
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 238
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ISBN-10 : 9780871403452
ISBN-13 : 0871403455
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Book Synopsis Walking Home: A Poet's Journey by : Simon Armitage

Download or read book Walking Home: A Poet's Journey written by Simon Armitage and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-03-25 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Portico Prize for Nonfiction Nineteen days, 256 miles, and one renowned poet walking the backbone of England. 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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