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Simon Armitage

Walking Home: A Poet's Journey

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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… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-87140-743-6
  • EAN: 9780871407436
  • Produktnummer: 14911945
  • Verlag: Liveright Pub Corp
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
  • Seitenangabe: 285 S.
  • Masse: H20.6 cm x B13.7 cm x D2.3 cm 281 g
  • Gewicht: 281

Über den Autor


Simon Armitage is Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds and from 2015 to 2019 served as the Oxford Professor of Poetry. He has published ten collections of poetry and is the author of four stage plays, over a dozen television films, a libretto, two novels, and three memoirs. His poetry has won numerous awards, including a Gregory Award, a Forward Prize, a Lannan Literary Award, and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. In 2019 he was appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom.

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