Mariann sin blogg

I discovered Simon Armitage, not through his poems, but through his book Gig : the life and times of a rock-star fantasist , pop music being one of my true joys in life. Since then he's been situated in my head as an author to like. What I also have a tendency to like is Northern England, so when Armitage published his book about walking along the Pennines from north to south, it was of course bought for my Kindle. Not that I'm a walker myself, other than to pick bilberries in the autumn. Though as excercise goes, walking is not so bad. Armitage sets out to walk along the Pennines, setting up poetry readings at every stop and raising enough money to keep him fed and lodged throughout his trek. The Pennine Way is a trail of more than 400 km, and not done in a day! The book is written as a day-to-day diary where we follow his ups and downs (both geographically and mentally). Surprisingly enough, the landscape described is much more varied than I thought, but then, the only p...