Walking Away

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Walking Away

Travel writing

Author: Simon Armitage

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Language: English

Published by: Faber & Faber

Published on: 2nd June 2015

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 3 Mb

ISBN: 9780571298372


Not content with walking the Pennine Way

As a modern day troubadour, an experience recounted in his bestseller and prize-winning Walking Home, the restless poet has followed up that journey with a walk of the same distance but through the very opposite terrain and direction far from home.

Walking Away

Simon Armitage swaps the moorland uplands of the north for the coastal fringes of Britain's south west, once again giving readings every night, but this time through Somerset, Devon and Cornwall, taking poetry into distant communities and tourist hot-spots, busking his way from start to finish.

From Minehead Butlins to the Isles of Scilly

From the surreal pleasuredome of Minehead Butlins to a smoke-filled roundhouse on the Penwith Peninsula then out to the Isles of Scilly and beyond, Armitage tackles this personal Odyssey with all the poetic reflection and personal wit we've come to expect of one of Britain's best loved and most popular writers.

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