The Basil Bunting Poetry Award
This award acknowledges and celebrates the life and work of Basil Bunting. He was a leading British modernist poet whose poems have established their place amongst the twentieth century’s best poetry. Bunting’s precise and measured speech in his best known long poem Briggflatts led the critic Cyril Connolly to describe it as ‘the finest long poem to have been published in English since T S Eliot’s Four Quartets'.
The entry process for the 2009 Award is now closed. Please visit the web site again for information about the 2010 Award which will be announced soon.
Prizes for the 2009 Award were:
First Prize: £1000.00
Second Prize: £500.00
Third Prize: £250.00
and there were three commendations of £75.00 each
Judges
Closing Date: 12 o'clock midnight on 30 September 2009
Winners were announced: 10 December 2009