With sleights learned from others and an ear open to melodic analogies I have set down words as a musician pricks his score, not to be read in silence, but to trace in the air a pattern of sound that may sometimes, I hope, be pleasing.


- Basil Bunting, preface to Collected Poems



Friday 9 March 2012

Don Share Confirmed Keynote Speaker


We are delighted to announce Don Share, Senior Editor of Poetry magazine, is now a confirmed keynote speaker. In light of his new edited volume, Bunting's Persia, he will be talking about how Bunting's interest in Persian verse informed his relationships with other poets, and with poetry.