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Walking Home: A Poet’s Journey

by Simon Armitage
. March 2013. 224p. 978-0-87140-416-9. 24.95.
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Multi-award-winning British poet Armitage is a superb storyteller in all forms, having written novels, scripts, and an opera libretto and translated classics like Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. So he seems like a natural for the travel-monolog format, which he uses to relate a 19-day, 256-mile hike down the Pennine Way (called “the backbone of England”), during which he did poetry readings in exchange for a bed each night. No moony lyricist (he’s a former probations officer), Armitage offers acute, dry-eyed observations of contemporary life.
Reviewed by Sue White , Oct 01, 2012
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