“Poetry, like music, is to be heard,” Bunting proposed in a statement published shortly after “Briggflatts.” You can now listen to him online, reading sections of the poem in his exactingly enunciated, tastefully exaggerated, thoroughly satisfying way. Bunting does not give a poetry reading so much as a poetry bellowing, a poetry gargling, a falling-and-swelling, consonant-spitting, Northern English beat-boxing.
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http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-improbable-life-and-prescient-poetry-of-basil-bunting
online:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ7greLmS3I
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