One poem

Bunting, Odes 2.1

I’ve got a stack of interesting new books I’m looking forward to writing about here, but it’s world poetry day today (apparently), so I thought I’d write about a single poem I think about often. This is the first poem from Basil Bunting’s second book of Odes, written in the 1960s. (Bunting, born in 1900, wrote most of his poetry in the 20s and 30s, and …