DURHAM UNIVERSITY LIBRARY: BASIL BUNTING POETRY ARCHIVE

Description: The University Library’s Basil Bunting Poetry Archive is an extensive collection of published works by and relating to the poet Basil Bunting (1900-1985), with manuscripts and papers, photographs, films and sound recordings. Bunting’s poetry is deeply rooted in the landscape, history, language and culture of his native Northumbria, where he spent his youth, and to which he returned for the last three decades of his life. He believed that sound was integral to poetic form, and that poetry must be heard. The collection’s films are chiefly copies on video of television programmes relating to Bunting, while the recordings include poetry readings and interviews made for television and radio.
Website: http://aesica.dur.ac.uk/delores/asc/other.asp
Keywords: Poetry; Bunting, Basil
Access: Open to all bona fide researchers, Mon-Fri, 0900-1700. Searchers are required to give prior notice of visits.
Access for outsiders: Yes
Facilities: Facilities for accessing film and sound in the Library.
Charges: None
Copyright: Copyrighy in films and sound recordings held by TV and film companies.

Sound: 4 cassettes of poetry readings/interviews; approx 2 hours.
Video/Film: 7 video copies of television programmes on Basil Bunting; approx 4 hours.

Online catalogue: Handlist will eventually be included in the Library’s Information System on the Internet.
Printed catalogue: Word-processed handlist available locally.

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