[Poetry reading at the University at Buffalo, July 29, 1966] / Basil Bunting.

Recorded at the University at Buffalo, July 29, 1966 on a 7 inch Ampex reel-to-reel tape.

In this performance, Basil Bunting reads all six sections of the long poem "Briggflatts," with the accompaniment of music played between the sections of the poem. The climactic exception to this pattern was during section IV, when Bunting read while the music played. Bunting made no comments during the reading except to thank the audience when he was finished.

Basil Bunting.

The Poetry Collection of the University Libraries. Digital conversion was made possible through a 2009 National Endowment for the Humanities grant.

1966

Sound recording

PCR039

from Briggflatts:first line of section I:[Brag, sweet tenor bull] --first line of section II:[Poet appointed dare not decline] --first line of section III:[Down into dust and reeds] --first line of section IV:[Grass caught in willow tells the flood's height that has subsided] --first line of section V:[Drip--icicle's gone] --first line of coda:[A strong song tows].

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