Poet's Pennine Way
Walking Home
Acclaimed poet Simon Armitage embarks on an extraordinary 256-mile trek along the Pennine Way, from the Scottish border to his childhood home in West Yorkshire.
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His unique twist? He funds the journey by performing poetry readings in village halls and community centres along the route, passing a hat amongst audiences and relying on their generosity to continue. This is both a meditation on landscape and belonging, and a wry examination of what poetry means in contemporary Britain. Armitage captures the beauty and brutality of England's backbone with characteristic wit and lyrical precision, whilst testing whether verse can literally be worth its weight in survival. The result is an engaging exploration of homecoming, the value of art, and the relationship between a writer and the wild places that shaped him.
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