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Nineteen days, 256 a long way, and one renowned poet walking the backbone of Great britain. The wandering poet is definitely a feature of your cultural thoughts. Odysseus journeys home, his famous flair for storytelling seducing friend and foe. The Romantic poets tramped all over the Lake District looking for ideas. Now Simon Armitage, with equivalent parts enthusiasm and trepidation, and a wry laughter all his own, has considered on Britain's version of your Appalachian Trail: the Pennine Way. Walking "the backbone of Great britain" by day (associated with friends, family, strangers, pet dogs, the unpredictable British weather, and a backpack filled with Mars Pubs), each night he provides poetry reading in another type of village in trade for a foundation. Armitage reflects on the inextricable hyperlink between freedom and dread as well as the poet's place inside our bustling world. In Armitage's own words, "to embark on the walk is to surrender to its lore and send to its logic, also to take up challenging against the self applied."
