Walking Away: Further Travels with a Troubadour on the South West Coast Path

Author(s): Simon Armitage

Travel Narratives

Not content with walking the Pennine Way as a modern day troubadour, an experience recounted in his bestseller and 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 and 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 and Cornwall, taking poetry into distant communities and tourist hot-spots, busking his way from start to finish. From the surreal pleasure dome of Minehead Butlins to a smoke-filled roundhouse on the Penwith Peninsula then out to the Isles of Scilly and beyond, Armitage tackles this personal Odyssey with all the poetic reflection and personal wit we've come to expect of one of Britain's best loved and most popular writers.


Product Information

Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire and is Professor of Poetry at the University of Sheffield. He has published ten collections of poetry, is the author of two novels as well as the bestselling memoir, All Points North. In 2010 he received the CBE for his services to poetry.

General Fields

  • : 9780571298358
  • : Faber & Faber
  • : Faber & Faber Non-Fiction
  • : June 2015
  • : United Kingdom
  • : June 2015
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Simon Armitage
  • : Hardback
  • : Main
  • : 914.23048612092
  • : 288