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Article: culture: Northern bard of Sixties still inspires; Lee Hall, above, the writer of Billy Elliot and The Pitmen Painters, explains his fascination with poet Basil Bunting.(Features)
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- The Journal (Newcastle, England)
- Article date:
- February 28, 2009
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I'D heard a lot about the Morden Tower's heyday in the 1980s when I was kicking about Newcastle. I was mostly playing music or doing theatre and didn't realise it was still going. But it wasn't until more recently that I really started reading Basil Bunting.
I stumbled across a Bloodaxe (Books) tape of Bunting reading a few years back and was absolutely mesmerised. I also knew the work of poets he had influenced such as Barry MacSweeney and Tom Pickard and then got curious to follow the connection.
The connection was very close - famously Tom rekindled ...
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