Walking Away
Buy from Faber Made The Sunday Times bestseller list for non-fiction. Not content with walking the Pennine Way as a modern day troubadour, an experience recounted in his bestselling and prize-winning Walking Home, the restless poet has followed up that journey with a walk of the same distance but through the very opposite terrain and direction […]
Walking Home
Buy from Faber A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller and shortlisted for 2012 Portico Prize. Video and an extract are available here. In summer 2010 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 […]
Gig
Buy from Penguin From punk to mod to New Romantic, and eventually to acclaimed poet, Simon Armitage writes about a life where music and poetry have been core. And about a place, the village of Marsden in west Yorkshire, where he can stand and look out across a huge circumference of inspiration and influence: Joy […]
All Points North
Buy from Penguin Yorkshire Post Book of the Year All Points North is a best-selling memoir about the North – Simon Armitage’s North. His subjects include a typical Saturday night out in West Yorkshire, Hebden Bridge – the hippy capital of the universe – watching Huddersfield Town on Saturday afternoon, and the electrified East coast line.