Poet Simon Armitage 'the modern troubadour'
Simon Armitage has walked the 256 mile Pennine Way as a 'modern troubadour', earning food and accommodation by reading poetry.
Armitage charts his journey in his new book, Walking Home.
He told BBC Breakfast that he undertook the project to "test" the reputation of poetry and his own reputation as a poet, but that the book became "about other people and their relationship to the land."
03 Jul 2012
- From the section Entertainment & Arts