
Basil Cheesman Bunting (1 March 1900 – 17 April 1985) was a significant British modernist poet whose reputation was established with the publication of Briggflatts in 1966. He had a lifelong interest in music that led him to emphasise the sonic qualities of poetry, particularly the importance of reading poetry aloud. He was an accomplished reader of his own work, and a born modernist.
As an Amazon Associate, Spinn Radio earns from qualifying purchases.
You Idiot
Rivers
Birthday Greeting
Easter 1916
Sailing to Byzantium
The Cat and the Moon
The Wild Swans at Coole
Briggflatts - Part One
Canto I
Canto II
At Briggflatts Meeting House (Odes II:11)
Briggflatts - Part Two
Briggflatts - Part Three
Briggflatts: Coda
Briggflatts 1
Dear be still (Odes, 1:9)
The flee from me that sometime did me seek; Thomas Wyatt
On the Fly-Leaf of Pound's Cantos (Odes, I:37)
At Briggflatts Meetinghouse (Odes, II:11)
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking (Whitman)
The lines of those we sing
Briggflatts - Part Four
Briggflatts - Part Five
Spenser Verses from The April Eclogue of the Shepheardes Calendar
On the Fly-leaf of Pound's Cantos
John Kinsella's Lament for Mrs Mary Moore
On the Fly_leaf of Pound's Cantos (Odes, I:37)
Briggflatts
the longe love that in my thought doth harbour
wk 4 Briggflatts (excerpt)
The rains, the rains
You that in love find luck and abundance
Help me to seek; Ye old mule
What death is worse than this
My lute awake
What meanth this
Blame not my lute
What should I say
Grudge on who list
Spenser Dirge from the November Eclogue of the Shepheardes Calendar
There was never nothing more me pained
Briggflatts 2
Briggflatts 3
Briggflatts 4
Briggflatts 5
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Part Five
Tune into 50,000+ live radio stations from every corner of the world on an interactive 3D globe with audio-reactive visualizations.