Tuesday, July 27, 2010

News at Eleven: [Simon] Armitage is walking the 264-mile Pennine Way.

He started with no money and is instead staging nightly poetry readings in halls, houses and pubs en route in return for donations, accommodation and food.

He is singing for his supper--following the gruelling and sometimes risky route as a modern-day troubadour in an attempt to make his poetry pay.

from BBC News: Simon Armitage puts poetry into motion in Yorkshire

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