Walking Away

Walking AwayAuthor: Simon Armitage South West England Published on 5 May 2016 by FABER & FABER in the United Kingdom. Paperback 288 pages 196 x 126 x 19 238g Not content with walking the Pennine Way as a modern day troubadour, an experience recounted in his bestseller and prize wining 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. In Walking Away

Author: Simon Armitage

South West England

Published on 5 May 2016 by FABER & FABER in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 288 pages
196 x 126 x 19 | 238g

Not content with walking the Pennine Way as a modern day troubadour, an experience recounted in his bestseller and prize-wining 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. In 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 finsh.

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.