He published a number of small pamphlets, most of which were collected in three books: Sweet Cicely (1983), Uncertain Time (1990) and Larksong Signal (1997). A volume of selected poems, Magpie Words, appeared in 2002. His final book, Writing In The Dark, was published in late 2003.
With his wife Ann Caddel, he ran Pig Press, through which he published a number of
British,
Irish and
American poets of the latter half of the 20th century.
Caddel edited Bunting's Uncollected Poems in 1991 and his Complete Poems in 1994. With
Peter Quartermain, he edited the anthology Other: British And Irish Poetry Since 1970 (1998). He served as Director of the
Basil Bunting Poetry Centre at
Durham University for a number of years up to his death.