A strong song tows us: The life of Basil Bunting, Britain's greatest modernist poet

A Strong Song Tows Us is the first full-length biography of Britain's greatest modernist poet, Basil Bunting, whose work was admired by the finest writers of the twentieth century. He lived an astonishing life as an artists' model, roadmender, sailor, balloon operator, diplomat, spy, journalist and university lecturer, but above all as a poet.