Saturday, July 14, 2012

POET SIMON ARMITAGE: IN THE WRONG DIRECTION



HIGHLIGHT OF THE WEEK





The poet, appearing at Latitude Festival this weekend, explains how he found the "globe granite underfoot"
Simon Armitage CBE begins the interview with an interesting admission: “You can’t write poems every day. You can’t always live at that pitch.” Armitage is one of our most in-demand and widely studied poets, whom Poetry Review has described as “the front man of his generation”.
He’s explaining why his latest book is not poetry, but an account of a long-distance walk he completed in the summer of 2010. Walking Home blends observations floral, ornithological and geological with memoir, travel narrative and a few poems Armitage composed en route. The result is engaging, funny and genuinely revealing, both of the diverse landscapes he traverses, and of the life of a poet; just as he intended.





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