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- 1965 - [1992] (Creation)
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Basil Bunting, studies of: copy of magazine King Ida's Watch Chain 1 (Newcastle upon Tyne, 1965), a looseleaf anthology of material on Bunting edited by Tom Pickard with articles by Louis Zukofsky, Gael Turnbull and others, and visual material; duplicator-printed version of Gael Turnbull's 1965 article 'An arlespenny: Some notes on the poetry of Basil Bunting' (outsize); 'Out loud', an article based on extracts from Mottram's radio interview of Bunting, printed in The Listener, 28 Aug 1975, p.274; John Woolford article 'Briggflatts: a poem shaped like a tombstone' from Mews 1 (Cambridge, 1975) 41-45; Poetry Information 19 (London, 1978) 'Basil Bunting special issue'; manuscript letter from Robert Bank of Colne, Lancashire, 6 Dec 1978, with observations on topography of 'Briggflatts' and an appended genealogy; photocopy of typescript of study of Bunting by Andrew McAllister, titled '"Today's posts are piles to drive into the quaggy past on which impermanent palaces balance"' with manuscript letter from McAllister, 29 Mar 1985; offprint of Peter Barry article 'A reading of Basil Bunting's Briggflats' from Forum for Modern Language Studies 21/3 (1985)208-224, inscribed by the author; photocopy of article referring to Bunting by Donald Davie, headed 'Nonconformist poetics: a response to Daniel Jenkins', published in Journal of Literature & Theology 2/3 (Sep 1988), 163-173; Peter Quartermain Basil Bunting: poet of the North (Basil Bunting Poetry Archive, Durham, 1990); review article on books on Bunting, 'Remember the song' by Robert Carver, from New Statesman & Society (1 Nov 1991), 42-43; photocopies of essays and poems from American students at Buffalo [1992], detailing reactions to Mottram teaching Bunting; photocopy of unattributed bibliography of Bunting's printed work