From the surreal pleasure dome of Minehead Butlins to a smoke-filled roundhouse on the Penwith Peninsula then out to the Isles of Scilly and beyond, the author tackles this personal Odyssey with all the poetic reflection and personal wit we've come to expect of one of Britain's best loved and most popular writers.
The acclaimed sequel to Armitage's top ten bestselling travel book "Walking Home". In "Walking Away" Simon Armitage swaps the moorland uplands of the north for the coastal fringes of Britain's south west, once again giving readings every night, but this time through Somerset, Devon and Cornwall. 'Very enjoyable and fuelled by Armitage's own down-to-earth poetic genius' "Guardian"
