POET SIMON ARMITAGE: IN THE WRONG DIRECTION

	HIGHLIGHT OF THE WEEK
from We Love this Book

SIMON ARMITAGE: IN THE WRONG DIRECTION 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. MORE >