Walking Home A Poet S Journey

Author : Simon Armitage
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-25
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780871403452

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Walking Home: A Poet's Journey by Simon Armitage Pdf

Shortlisted for the Portico Prize for Nonfiction Nineteen days, 256 miles, and one renowned poet walking the backbone of England. The wandering poet has always been a feature of our cultural imagination. Odysseus journeys home, his famous flair for storytelling seducing friend and foe. The Romantic poets tramped all over the Lake District searching for inspiration. Now Simon Armitage, with equal parts enthusiasm and trepidation, as well as a wry humor all his own, has taken on Britain’s version of our Appalachian Trail: the Pennine Way. Walking “the backbone of England” by day (accompanied by friends, family, strangers, dogs, the unpredictable English weather, and a backpack full of Mars Bars), each evening he gives a poetry reading in a different village in exchange for a bed. Armitage reflects on the inextricable link between freedom and fear as well as the poet’s place in our bustling world. In Armitage’s own words, “to embark on the walk is to surrender to its lore and submit to its logic, and to take up a challenge against the self.”

Author : Simon Armitage
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-26
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780571284023

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Walking Home by Simon Armitage Pdf

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 the Scottish border. He resolved to tackle it the other way round: through beautiful and bleak terrain, across lonely fells and into the howling wind, he would be walking home, towards theYorkshire village where he was born. Travelling as a 'modern troubadour' without a penny in his pocket, he stopped along the way to give poetry readings in village halls, churches, pubs and living rooms. His audiences varied from the passionate to the indifferent, and his readings were accompanied by the clacking of pool balls, the drumming of rain and the bleating of sheep. WALKING HOME describes this extraordinary, yet ordinary, journey. It's a story about Britain's remote and overlooked interior - the wildness of its landscape and the generosity of the locals who sustained him on his journey. It's about facing emotional and physical challenges, and sometimes overcoming them. It's nature writing, but with people at its heart. Contemplative, moving and droll, it is a unique narrative from one of our most beloved writers.

Author : Eric Walters
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780385681582

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Walking Home by Eric Walters Pdf

Set in both the wilds and slums of Kenya, a powerful story about a brother and sister's brave journey to find a place to call home. 13-year-old Muchoki and his younger sister, Jata, can barely recognize what's become of their lives. Only weeks ago they lived in a bustling Kenyan village, going to school, playing soccer with friends, and helping at their parents' store. But sudden political violence has killed their father and destroyed their home. Now, Muchoki, Jata, and their ailing mother live in a tent in an overcrowded refugee camp. By day, they try to fend off hunger and boredom. By night, their fears about the future are harder to keep at bay. Driven by both hope and desperation, Muchoki and Jata set off on what seems like an impossible journey: to walk hundreds of kilometers to find their last remaining family.

Author : Fiona Macintosh,Justine McConnell,Stephen Harrison,Claire Kenward
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192526243

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Epic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century by Fiona Macintosh,Justine McConnell,Stephen Harrison,Claire Kenward Pdf

Greek and Roman epic poetry has always provided creative artists in the modern world with a rich storehouse of themes. Tim Supple and Simon Reade's 1999 stage adaptation of Ted Hughes' Tales from Ovid for the RSC heralded a new lease of life for receptions of the genre, and it now routinely provides raw material for the performance repertoire of both major cultural institutions and emergent, experimental theatre companies. This volume represents the first systematic attempt to chart the afterlife of epic in modern performance traditions, with chapters covering not only a significant chronological span, but also ranging widely across both place and genre, analysing lyric, film, dance, and opera from Europe to Asia and the Americas. What emerges most clearly is how anxieties about the ability to write epic in the early modern world, together with the ancient precedent of Greek tragedy's reworking of epic material, explain its migration to the theatre. This move, though, was not without problems, as epic encountered the barriers imposed by neo-classicists, who sought to restrict serious theatre to a narrowly defined reality that precluded its broad sweeps across time and place. In many instances in recent years, the fact that the Homeric epics were composed orally has rendered reinvention not only legitimate, but also deeply appropriate, opening up a range of forms and traditions within which epic themes and structures may be explored. Drawing on the expertise of specialists from the fields of classical studies, English and comparative literature, modern languages, music, dance, and theatre and performance studies, as well as from practitioners within the creative industries, the volume is able to offer an unprecedented modern and dynamic study of 'epic' content and form across myriad diverse performance arenas.

Author : Lynn Schooler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781608192892

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Walking Home by Lynn Schooler Pdf

In the spring of 2007, hard on the heels of the worst winter in the history of Juneau, Alaska, Lynn Schooler finds himself facing the far side of middle age and exhausted by laboring to handcraft a home as his marriage slips away. Seeking solace and escape in nature, he sets out on a solo journey into the Alaskan wilderness, traveling first by small boat across the formidable Gulf of Alaska, then on foot along one of the wildest coastlines in North America. Walking Home is filled with stunning observations of the natural world, and rife with nail-biting adventure as Schooler fords swollen rivers and eludes aggressive grizzlies. But more important, it is a story about finding wholeness-and a sense of humanity-in the wild. His is a solitary journey, but Schooler is never alone; human stories people the landscape-tales of trappers, explorers, marooned sailors, and hermits, as well as the mythology of the region's Tlingit Indians. Alone in the middle of several thousand square miles of wilderness, Schooler conjures the souls of travelers past to learn how the trials of life may be better borne with the help and community of others. Walking Home recalls Jonathan Raban's Passage to Juneau or Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild, but with a more successful outcome. With elegance and soul, Schooler creates a conversation between the human and the natural, the past and present, to investigate what it means to be a part of the flow of human history.

Author : Sista V
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780557329328

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Going Home by Sista V Pdf

GOING HOME charts a journey of travel and return as experienced by Sista V (a.k.a. Vaughnette Goode-Walker) creator of the popular Footprints of Savannah Walking Tour and a long-time hostess of poetry open mics in Savannah, Georgia, and elsewhere.

Author : Bill Bryson
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780385674546

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A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson Pdf

God only knows what possessed Bill Bryson, a reluctant adventurer if ever there was one, to undertake a gruelling hike along the world's longest continuous footpath—The Appalachian Trail. The 2,000-plus-mile trail winds through 14 states, stretching along the east coast of the United States, from Georgia to Maine. It snakes through some of the wildest and most spectacular landscapes in North America, as well as through some of its most poverty-stricken and primitive backwoods areas. With his offbeat sensibility, his eye for the absurd, and his laugh-out-loud sense of humour, Bryson recounts his confrontations with nature at its most uncompromising over his five-month journey. An instant classic, riotously funny, A Walk in the Woods will add a whole new audience to the legions of Bill Bryson fans.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1153523623

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Walking Home by Anonim Pdf

A record of the artist's journey from house to home.

Author : Jeffrey Gray,Mary McAleer Balkun,James McCorkle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 823 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9798216046608

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American Poets and Poetry [2 volumes] by Jeffrey Gray,Mary McAleer Balkun,James McCorkle Pdf

The ethnically diverse scope, broad chronological coverage, and mix of biographical, critical, historical, political, and cultural entries make this the most useful and exciting poetry reference of its kind for students today. American poetry springs up out of all walks of life; its poems are "maternal as well as paternal...stuff'd with the stuff that is coarse and stuff'd with the stuff that is fine," as Walt Whitman wrote, adding "Of every hue and caste am I, of every rank and religion." Written for high school and undergraduate students, this two-volume encyclopedia covers U.S. poetry from the Colonial era to the present, offering full treatments of hundreds of key poets of the American canon. What sets this reference apart is that it also discusses events, movements, schools, and poetic approaches, placing poets in their social, historical, political, cultural, and critical contexts and showing how their works mirror the eras in which they were written. Readers will learn about surrealism, ekphrastic poetry, pastoral elegy, the Black Mountain poets, and "language" poetry. There are long and rich entries on modernism and postmodernism as well as entries related to the formal and technical dimensions of American poetry. Particular attention is paid to women poets and poets from various ethnic groups. Poets such as Amiri Baraka, Nathaniel Mackey, Natasha Trethewey, and Tracy Smith are featured. The encyclopedia also contains entries on a wide selection of Latino and Native American poets and substantial coverage of the avant-garde and experimental movements and provides sidebars that illuminate key points.

Author : Jonathan Ellis
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 075463566X

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Art and Memory in the Work of Elizabeth Bishop by Jonathan Ellis Pdf

This book opens a welcome new direction in Elizabeth Bishop studies and in the study of women poets generally, by urging a more thorough scrutiny of artistic memory. Drawing on published works and unpublished material overlooked by many critics, Ellis balances consideration of Bishop's life in the United States with discussion of how her Canadian upbringing influenced her art.

Author : Lewis Crusius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1753
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015062931624

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Lives of the Roman Poets by Lewis Crusius Pdf

Author : Lewis Crusius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1732
Category : Latin poetry
ISBN : IND:30000128828427

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The Lives of the Roman Poets by Lewis Crusius Pdf

Author : Lewis Crusius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1733
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z181846800

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The Lives of the Roman Poets ... with a Chronological Table ... Together with an Introduction by Lewis Crusius Pdf

Author : John Goodby
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2000-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 071902997X

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Irish Poetry Since 1950 by John Goodby Pdf

Irish Poetry since 1950 is a survey of poetry, from Northern Ireland, the Republic, Britain, and the US, covering the 1950s, the 1960s, the early period of the Troubles up to 1976, the 1980s and the 1990s.

Author : Maggie Anderson,Alex Gildzen,Raymond A. Craig
Publisher : Kent State University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0873384687

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A Gathering of Poets by Maggie Anderson,Alex Gildzen,Raymond A. Craig Pdf

A collection of poems commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the killing of four Kent State students on May 4, 1970.