cover image Complete Poems

Complete Poems

Basil Bunting. New Directions Publishing Corporation, $16.95 (239pp) ISBN 978-0-8112-1563-3

For readers who have had considered ordering the U.K. edition, The Collected Poems of Basil Bunting's appearance on these shores will be most welcome. Bunting (1900-1985) is the author of the long poem ""Briggflatts"" (included here), considered by many to be the greatest poem of the mid-20th century written by a person born a British subject.