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Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire and is Professor of Poetry at the University of Sheffield. A recipient of numerous prizes and awards, he has published ten collections of poetry, including Selected Poems (2001), Seeing Stars (2010), his acclaimed translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2007) and more recently The Death of King Arthur (2012). A broadcaster and presenter, he also writes extensively for television and radio, is the author of two novels and the bestselling memoir All Points North. In 2010 he received the CBE for services to poetry.
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“[Armitage] displays a sharp appreciation of place, both in its unique contours and its mystery... doling out small stories―about the people he walks with or the history of the landscape, the misery of midges or the terror of a deep fog high in the Uplands―that flash like sun on chrome.”
- Kirkus Reviews
“Starred review. [A]n ingenious idea for a journey and a brilliant idea for a book, which includes some of his poems. In this entertaining jaunt through rural Britain and unpredictable weather, part travel guide and part memoir, Armitage describes his adventures, from collie dogs growling at his heels and “mean-looking cows” to the unbridled generosity of strangers. A travel gem.”
- Booklist
“Part pilgrimage and part stunt... He writes with self-effacing humor and mixes a few of his own poems with memoir, natural history, and literary reflections... Though Armitage complains at times that the Pennine Way is an ‘unglamorous slog among soggy, lonely moors” ...his account is never a slog for the reader.”
- New Yorker
“Never showy or excitable, his prose has a steady, phlegmatic, gently propulsive rhythm perfectly suited to the matter at hand, his sentences in tune with his feet.”
- Ben Downing, The Wall Street Journal
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- PublisherFaber & Faber
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0571249892
- ISBN 13 9780571249893
- BindingPaperback
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