Walking Home

Author: Armitage, Simon

Brand: Penguin Random House

Color: Blue

Edition: Main

Binding: paperback

Number Of Pages: 304

Release Date: 04-04-2013

Details: Product Description
One summer, Simon Armitage decided to walk the Pennine Way - a challenging 256-mile route usually approached from south to north, with the sun, wind and rain at your back. However, he resolved to tackle it back to front, walking home towards the Yorkshire village where he was born, travelling as a 'modern troubadour', without a penny in his pockets and singing for his supper with poetry readings in village halls, churches, pubs and living rooms. Walking Home describes his extraordinary, yet ordinary, journey of human endeavour, unexpected kindnesses and terrible blisters.The companion volume, Walking Away, is published in June 2015.
Book Description
Join the Poet Laureate on his heroic, hilarious and moving feat to walk the Pennine Way without a penny in his pocket.
About the Author
Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire and is Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds. A recipient of numerous prizes and awards, his collections of poetry include
Seeing Stars (2010),
The Unaccompanied (2017),
Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic (2019),
Magnetic Field (2020)
and his acclaimed translation of
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2007). He writes extensively for television and radio, and is the author of two novels and the non-fiction bestsellers
All Points North (1998),
Walking Home (2012) and
Walking Away (2015). His theatre works include
The Last Days of Troy, performed at Shakespeare's Globe in 2014. From 2015 to 2019, he served as Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford, and, in 2018, he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Simon Armitage is Poet Laureate.

EAN: 9780571249893

Package Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.0 x 1.1 inches

Languages: English