New videos of Basil King reading now available

From the launch of There Are No Ghosts There Are Portraits at the Five Myles Gallery in Brooklyn – Basil reads Part Two of this recent book, September 2022.  [29 minutes]. Click here to purchase the book.

For Don Yorty’s wonderful blog [donyorty.com] – Basil reads the text of In Delacroix’s Garden – taped in his Brooklyn kitchen, February 2023.  [20 minutes]. Click here to purchase the book.

For The Brooklyn Rail’s Wednesday poetry series, Basil and Yuko Otomo, co-author of In Delacroix’s Garden, read their respective texts and engaged in a lively discussion about how the collaboration came to be as well as the relevance of Delacroix and his garden to both of them. (March 2023).