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SUMMARY:Dead Poets Live: Briggflatts - An Autobiography
LOCATION:The Coronet Theatre\, W11 3LB
DESCRIPTION:You are using an outdated browser. Please upgrade your browser to improve your experience. Safari users if you experience issues with booking\, please see help & assistance In 1964\, Basil Bunting \, as old as the century\, was living near Newcastle in grinding poverty and obscurity\, an extinguished star of the Modernist era who’d barely written a poem in 30 years\, now working as a sub-editor on a local paper. What happened next is one of the great stories\, and achievements\, of English literature: the poem that Bunting set himself to make\, Briggflatts \, has been compared favourably to Eliot’s The Waste Land and Pound’s Cantos by the poet Thom Gunn\, among others. It may be the richest\, most musical\, most wide-ranging and most moving long poem in English of the twentieth century: an unforgiving self-reckoning by a poet in old age\, a history of human violence and folly across the centuries\, a journey through Northumbria\, Italy\, the Arctic ocean\, Bloomsburyite London and Iran\, a love story spanning fifty years\, and the autobiography of a man whose life almost defies belief. It’s wise\, lyrical\, regretful\, learnèd\, tough\, funny\, heartbreaking and one of the few truly indispensable poems of...
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