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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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