RAMBLING AND RUMINATING

Simon Armitage goes on a poetical wander along a coastal path in Walking Away

In 2010 poet Simon Armitage headed home along the Pennine Way. This time he’s reprising his role as a modern day troubadour and paying his way by reading poetry as he walks from Minehead in Somerset to Land’s End in Cornwall, strolling “through holiday destinations and tourist traps” and up steep hills armed with a holly stick and an expensive outdoor hat. His route takes him along crumbling coastal paths, through enchanted forests and eerie saltwater marshes, where spectral herons and tree trunks bleached to a silvery white give the landscape an otherworldy quality. (Faber, £16.99)…

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The Simple Things (Digital) - 1 Issue, 01-Jul-2015

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