Some of the poets and writers with whom Basil Bunting corresponded.

Join Alex Niven as he shares his insights and highlights from a new selection of letters.

📆 1st November at 17.15

Open to everyone, including the public. Details:

👉 durham.ac.uk/departments/ac…

I’m over the moon for Brazilian friends, but I hope the many young socialists who ignored smears and attacks from ‘moderates’ for campaigning to free Lula are having a nice night too. A class war prisoner being back in charge of a state that persecuted him - a rare win.

Into the dustbin of history with you.

Renovated Lindisfarne Castle is decent but for some reason they’ve stuck up snarky quotations by Lytton Strachey all over the place. One of the most inexplicably hyped writers in history condescending to sneer about one of the most beautiful places on earth

Excited to hear from Alex Niven next week about his new selection of the Letters of Basil Bunting.

📅 1st November at 17.15. In person Durham University but open to everyone.

👉 durham.ac.uk/departments/ac…

#BasilBunting #modernism #poetry #Durham

Join us at our Newcastle Launch Rally, 7pm Thursday 10th November at Boiler Shop! We will be joined by Zarah Sultana MP, Kate Osborne MP, Ian Lavery MP, Alex Niven, ACORN Newcastle, NUFC Fans Food Bank , RMT The CWU & more! Tickets here: tinyurl.com/EiENCLRally Enough is Enough

Delighted to be following in the footsteps of such (genuine) legends as Si Hairy Biker King in speaking at the Newcastle leg of the launch of Enough is Enough, perhaps the only game in town atm. It’s 10 November - come doon!

NEW: 150 universities will see an unprecedented wave of strikes as @UCU members vote to take industrial action against pension cuts by 84.9% (on a 60.2% turnout) and against a real-terms pay cut by 81.1% (on a 57.8% turnout).

Honestly so chuffed for these guys

Basil Bunting was one of the major modernist poets of the twentieth century. Learn more about his life and work with 'Letters of Basil Bunting', including detailed annotations of Bunting's letters and a critical introduction by Alex Niven. Available now: bit.ly/3SzeCVz

Key line here is ‘closest was 17% in spring 2019’, in other words the same year Tories won a landslide GE. Polls atm are not meaningless, but they do have to be put in context of our hyperreal, morbid-symptoms new normal, which produces wild volatility in mid term public opinion

Not looking good for the Midlands PL teams is it?