The Basil Bunting Poetry Centre and St. Aidans College Durham present:
The Basil Bunting Centenary Lecture
by
Professor Peter Makin
Kansai University, Japan
 
"Silent, Accurate Lips": Meaning and Precision in Bunting's Work
 
A Public Lecture in the Lindisfarne Centre, St. Aidan's College, Durham
University, at 6.30pm on Wednesday March 1st, 2000. All are welcome.
 
Bunting described scholarly criticism as "painful... necessary
policework" - but made an exception for Peter Makin's thorough and lucid
work on Ezra Pound. Makin's writing on Bunting is certainly
amongst the best in the steadily growing field, and includes _Bunting: The
Shaping of his Verse_ (Clarendon Press 1992) and his recent edition of
Bunting's lectures _Basil Bunting on Poetry_ (Johns Hopkins 1999).
 
Details of further Bunting Centenary Celebrations can be found on the
Bunting Centre Website at:
http://www.dur.ac.uk/~dul0www1/index.html
 
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Richard Caddel
Durham University Library, Stockton Rd., Durham DH1 3LY, UK
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Phone: +44 (0)191 374 3044    Fax: +44 (0)191 374 7481
WWW: http://www.dur.ac.uk/~dul0ric
 
"Words! Pens are too light. Take a chisel to write."
                                - Basil Bunting
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