Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1990)
19.5 x 11.8cm, blue outer folder with a drawing of a swallow on power lines with a 4pp insert with a one line poem by Finlay:

The Sound of a Single Swallow

gathering

The amusing one word naming of the sound made by a single bird being usually associated with a group also indicates the loudness of the sound. VG+. ...

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (c. 1990?) 16.5 x 12.2cm, 4pp folder content of a 4pp insert with a poem by Finlay:

FORECAST

'Rain - some
of it
heavy

more particularly
in the glens
of Scotland

where it may
fall as
sleet'

the sound
of calligrammes

The poem about the awful weather in Scotland is rounded off with a reference to Apolloniare's calligrammes and, in particular, his famous version of rain where the poem's words are in the shape of falling rain.
...

Little Sparta: WIld Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1990) 8.7 x 14.4cm, 12pp plus wrappers and printed dustjacket. Artist's book where two sentences by Heidegger have been added to by Finlay with a final sentence.

"In the wood are paths which mostly wind along until they end quite suddenly in an impenetrable thicket".
"They are called woodpaths"
and "They are paths where the heart and the foot walk hand in hand."

The drawing is by Solveig Hill. This is one of only 250 examples. Fine condition....

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