
Not content with walking the Pennine Way as a modern day troubadour an experience recounted in his bestseller & 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 & 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 & Cornwall taking poetry into distant communities & 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 & beyond Armitage tackles this personal Odyssey with all the poetic reflection & personal wit we've come to expect of one of Britain's best loved & most popular writers