Blackfell’s Scarlatti
August Kleinzahler: Basil Bunting, 21 January 1999
The Poet as Spy: The Life and Wild Times of Basil Bunting
by Keith Alldritt.
Aurum, 221 pp., £19.95, October 1998,1 85410 477 2 Show More
by Keith Alldritt.
Aurum, 221 pp., £19.95, October 1998,
“... In 1964 Basil Bunting began writing his long poem Briggflatts on the train from Wylam to Newcastle, where he was in charge of the financial page of the Newcastle Evening Chronicle. In June that year Bunting had written to a friend: ‘Nothing about myself. I feel I have been dead for ten years now, and my ghost doesn’t walk ... ”