Basil Bunting
In 1923 he met poet Ezra Pound in Paris. In the time before World War II, he travelled to London, Germany, Italy, the United States, and the Canary Islands. Sometimes he worked as a sailor. Pound supported his poetry. Through Pound he met poet Louis Zukofsky and writer James Joyce. In 1930 his first book, Redimiculum Matellarum, came out. In 1931 Zukosfsky included one of Bunting's poems in his "Objectivist" group in Poetry magazine. In 1933 many of his poems were printed in Pound’s Activist Anthology.