Title: Simon Armitage: Walking Home at the Birmingham Book Festival
Location: Birmingham, UK
Description: The Birmingham Book Festival is a collection of events and activities celebrating literature via thought, reading and discussion, in Birmingham, UK.
In summer 2010 poet and writer Simon Armitage decided to walk the Pennine Way. The challenging 256-mile route is usually approached from south to north, from Edale in the Peak District to Kirk Yetholm, the other side of the Scottish border. He resolved to tackle it the other way round: through beautiful and bleak terrain, across lonely fells and into the howling wind, he would be walking home, towards the Yorkshire village where he was born.
Walking Home is the story of that journey, about facing emotional and physical challenges, and sometimes overcoming them. It’s nature writing, but with people at its heart. Contemplative, moving and droll, it is a unique narrative from one of our most beloved writers.
Learn more here.
Date: October 5, 2012