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Mid-Pacific Elements
5 pages, artist's book
First published April 1, 1973
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Ian Hamilton Finlay
248 books15 followersIan Hamilton Finlay was a Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener. He was educated at Dollar Academy and joined the British Army in 1942.
At the end of the war, Finlay worked as a shepherd, before beginning to write short stories and poems, while living on Rousay, in Orkney. He published his first book, The Sea Bed and Other Stories in 1958 with some of his plays broadcast on the BBC, and some stories featured in The Glasgow Herald.
His first collection of poetry, The Dancers Inherit the Party was published in 1960 by Migrant Press with a second edition published in 1962. In 1963, Finlay published Rapel, his first collection of concrete poetry (poetry in which the layout and typography of the words contributes to its overall effect), and it was as a concrete poet that he first gained wide renown. Much of this work was issued through his own Wild Hawthorn Press, in his magazine Poor.Old.Tired.Horse'.
Later, Finlay began to compose poems to be inscribed into stone, incorporating these sculptures into the natural environment. This kind of 'poem-object' features in the garden Little Sparta that he and Sue Finlay created together in the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh.
At the end of the war, Finlay worked as a shepherd, before beginning to write short stories and poems, while living on Rousay, in Orkney. He published his first book, The Sea Bed and Other Stories in 1958 with some of his plays broadcast on the BBC, and some stories featured in The Glasgow Herald.
His first collection of poetry, The Dancers Inherit the Party was published in 1960 by Migrant Press with a second edition published in 1962. In 1963, Finlay published Rapel, his first collection of concrete poetry (poetry in which the layout and typography of the words contributes to its overall effect), and it was as a concrete poet that he first gained wide renown. Much of this work was issued through his own Wild Hawthorn Press, in his magazine Poor.Old.Tired.Horse'.
Later, Finlay began to compose poems to be inscribed into stone, incorporating these sculptures into the natural environment. This kind of 'poem-object' features in the garden Little Sparta that he and Sue Finlay created together in the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh.
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September 25, 2017
This actually has an Amazon listing - complete w/ ISBN number! Shocking! We're talking about a 3 inch high by 4.5 inch wide fold-out that opens into something 22.5 inches wide. The fold-out shows, from left-to-right, fighter planes flying over the ocean followed by 4 views of exploding warships. Each of these 4 has a title: FireWater (an obvious pun), ShellFire, Samphire (different edible plants that grow in coastal areas), & Ise (a class of battleship in the Imperial Japanese Navy). SO, yet another Finlay publication that very simply combines maritime references w/ some more metaphoric poetic element.
By the by, you can see this entire thing scanned near the bottom of my article about Instagram Poetry (wch this is presented as a counterexample to): http://idioideo.pleintekst.nl/Instagr...
By the by, you can see this entire thing scanned near the bottom of my article about Instagram Poetry (wch this is presented as a counterexample to): http://idioideo.pleintekst.nl/Instagr...
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