Walking Home: A Poet's Journey

Walking Home: A Poet's Journey
Simon Armitage (Author)

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Nineteen days, 256 miles, and one renowned poet walking the backbone of England.

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 a bed. Armitage reflects on the inextricable link between freedom and fear as well as the poet’s place in our bustling world. In Armitage’s own words, “to embark on the walk is to surrender to its lore and submit to its logic, and to take up a challenge against the self.” 29 photographs

• Rank: #81824 in Books
• Published on: 2013-03-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 304 pages

Description #1 by Walmart:

Walking Home: A Poet's Journey

Description #2 by Cokesbury.com:

This book was birthed out of nature walks where I longed to be alone with God and where I sought to hear his voice in the Echoes of the Refreshing Springs. I yearned to seek God's face and escape the norm, the noisy crowds and the masses of people I pass on this journey called life. As a mother of five, my life revolves around them, and as much as I love my children, I do need a break from them at times. These nature walks became my pavilion, my hiding place where just God and I could spend time together. LaShawn Ferguson, aka Desmonia Adedayo, is a minister at New Home Baptist Church under the leadership of Pastor Bobby Hicks. She is the author of Nuggets of Wisdom: Reflections of a Journey. She graduated from Evangel School of the Bible with a major in Biblical studies. She is the founder of the Poetic Voices Ministry at New Home Baptist Church and is also the founder of the Poets Corner, located in Brookland Manor Apartments, NE, Washington, DC, serving the DC inner city gifted youths. She has been blessed to travel to the Motherland, Kenya, Africa, to preach the Gospel. She has a passion for people and believes that when the Saints of truly come together then we can evangelize the nations. Her desire is to one day have a home for women that have suffered abuse and are unsure of what their purpose is in life. She is a woman that can relate to pain and adversity in life, feeling forsaken by all and loved by none and would love for all humanity to taste of the goodness of God's everlasting love.

Description #3 by LangtonInfo.com:

In 1841, the poet John Clare fled an asylum in Epping Forest and walked eighty miles to his home. He was searching for his lost love, Mary Joyce - a woman three years dead. In 2000, the author set out to recreate Clare's walk away from madness. He wanted to understand his bond with the poet and escape the gravity of his London obsessions.