About the Author:
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Basil Bunting
Northumberland, England
Basil Bunting was a British modernist poet whose reputation was established with the publication of Briggflatts in 1966, generally regarded as one of the major achievements of the modernist tradition in English. To find out more about his very unusual life, see the following article in The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-improbable-life-and-prescient-poetry-of-basil-bunting
