Fred Beake, who borrowed my copy this afternoon, asks why Bunting's
war service is not covered when the information should be available
under either the Thirty-year rule or the Fifty-year rule.
I note that Basil's complicated later love life is not mentioned.
Only his changes of address.
I knew Basil for a year or two in Newcastle around 1971 as a lovely
old man. I made him the presiding spirit of my book `Disbanded'.
His advice to me in poetry was `Never repeat yourself'.
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