Basil Bunting

Basil Bunting
Born	Basil Cheesman Bunting (1900-03-01)1 March 1900 Scotswood-on-Tyne, Northumberland, England
Died	17 April 1985(1985-04-17) (aged 85) Hexham, Northumberland, England
Resting place	Quaker graveyard at Brigflatts, Sedbergh, Cumbria, England
Education	London School of Economics (did not graduate)
Occupations	Poet, military intelligence analyst, diplomat, journalist
Spouses	Marian Gray Culver ​ ​ (m. 1930⁠–⁠1940)​ Sima Alladadian ​ ​ (m. 1948⁠–⁠1979)​
Children	5
Writing career
Notable work	"Briggflatts" (1966)
Movement	Modernism

Basil Cheesman Bunting (1 March 1900 – 17 April 1985) was a British modernist poet whose reputation was established with the publication of Briggflatts in 1966, generally regarded as one of the major achievements of the modernist tradition in English. He had a lifelong interest in music that led him to emphasise the sonic qualities of poetry, particularly the importance of reading poetry aloud: he was an accomplished reader of his own work.