Ian Hamilton Finlay : Selections, Edited and with an Introduction by Alec Finlay.

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This volume surveys the life and work of the Scottish poet Ian Hamilton Finlay, who is best known for his extraordinary garden, Little Sparta, a unique "poem of place" in which poetry, sculpture, and horticulture intersect. This book directs sustained attention to Finlay the verbal artist, revealing the full breadth and richness of his poetics. It illuminates the evolution from his early years of composing plays, stories, and lyrical poems to his discovery of Concrete poetry and his emergence as a key figure in the international avant-garde of the 1960s

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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Autobiographical Sketch; Introduction: Picking the Last Wild Flower; EARLY WRITINGS; Postcard from Glenlednoch; The Money; Walking through Seaweed; from The Dancers Inherit the Party; The Dancers Inherit the Party; Angles of Stamps; O.H.M.S.; Love Poem; Ah, So That Is Why; Bedtime; Black Tomintoul; Gift; Frank the Bear Writes His Deb Friend; Orkney Interior; Optimist; Milk Bottles; Archie, the Lyrical Lamplighter; The Writer and Beauty; Finlay's House (in Rousay); The Chief Crop of Orkney; Bi-Lingual Poem; Island Moment; Castles; Jess

The Island Beasts Wait for the BoatTwo Variations on an Orkney Theme, with Notes; Orkney Lyrics; Twice; Spring Holiday; Catch; Art Student; Scene; Poet; End of a Holiday; The Tug; Glasgow Beasts, An a Burd; Voyage; Fishing from the Back of Rousay; Another Huge Poem for Hughie; Blossom Quarry, Rousay; How to Be Happy; Lucy's Wee Brother; My Little Beat Mill in the West; Poem on My Poem on Her and the Horse; Such Is the World; Lucky; Midhope (All Gone); Dalchonzie; The Pond of Oo (in Orkney); No Thank You, I Can't Come; LATER WRITINGS; Concrete, Fauve, Suprematist, Sequential and Kinetic Poems

Detached Sentences on Concrete PoetryHomage to Malevich; A Peach an Apple; Lullaby; fir/far; Acrobats; Ring of Waves; Green Waters; First Suprematist Standing Poem; Column Poem; Cythera; 3 Happenings; Little Calendar; Arcady; Purse-Net Boat; Net / planet; Seams; Net; 3 Blue Lemons; Names of Barges; Point-to-Point; 3 Norfolk Dishes; From 'The Analects of Fishing News'; From 'TA MYOIKA of Fishing News'; From 'The Illuminations of Fishing News'; From 'The Metamorphoses of Fishing News'; Headlines, Pondlines; One-Word Poems; a bird of dawning; a heart-shape; a spray, from a breton sea-hedge

A sea-sawa water-lily pool; osiris; drip-dry; curfew; the boat's blueprint; elegy for 'whimbrel' and petrel; the cloud's anchor; an orchard of russets; a scotch daisy; hill; wave; a grey shore between day and night; a pinnate evergreen; a patch for a rip-tide; a keel with a tuck in it; a machine for fishing from; a sepia wild flower; eec sea; channel light-vessel automatic; One-Line Poems and Monostich; The ABC of Tea; Epicurus at Chatou; A Pittenweem Fancy; Elegiac Inscription; The Sea's / Waves; Stem; Sea; Your Name; from Domestic Pensées; Steam Drifter; Evolution of the Boat

Sound Poem KitElegy for A; from A Mast of Hankies; Preparations; The Hanky Sails; The Harbour; The Old Nobby; The Stopped Sailboat; The End; So You Want to Be a Panzer Leader?; Fly Navy; After Gael Turnbull; Sundial Inscriptions; The Four Seasons as Fishingboats; The Four Seasons in Sail; The Four Seasons as Fore-and-Afters; H) Our/Lady; Be in Time; Dividing the Light; Earth * Air * Fire; Umbra Solis; Sundial (After Paul Claudel); from Detached Sentences on Gardening; from Detached Sentences on the Pebble; from Detached Sentences on Exile; Errata of Ovid; Ovidian Flowers; Two Translations

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