(Audio)Books I've actually (re-)finished lately: 124

More importantly, I've just discovered that a distant family member was a keen enthusiast of Basil Bunting.

Things I did NOT see myself doing (just yet)

#377  Attempting to paraphrase a Ferdowsi - via Basil Bunting - story about the division of the world between Afaridun's sons to a 7-year-old on a train stuck somewhere outside London Bridge.

(Also, why I can write on my books... but he probably shouldn't.)

Books I've actually finished lately: 63

There seemed nothing to do but learn Persian and read Ferdowsi, so, I undertook that... It's an easy language if it's only for reading that you want it.

- Basil Bunting

Acknowledgements

... [A]ll the poets who ever were before me, particularly those I have read: but the editors who bought some of these poems at inadequate prices or printed others without paying anything I need not thank. On the contrary, they should thank me.

- Basil Bunting, Caveat Emptor

Favourite footnotes: 1

Skerry: O, come on, you know that one.

- Basil Bunting, Briggflatts

Books I've actually finished lately: 20

Credo

All old wives' chatter, cottage wisdom. No poem is profound.

- Basil Bunting, 'A Note on Briggflatts'