13 Aug FOUND POEM: THE MASTLESS BARGES. 1995.
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d.(1995)
9.4 x 9.4cm, 8pp plus card covers and printed dust jacket with a line drawing by Gary Hincks of boats on an estuary. Internally there is a "found" text which Finlay has designated as a poem by adding line breaks:
As they slip up the Torridge to Bideford
on the calm of a summer's evening, their
two or three men seem to walk
on the half mile wide stretch of water and
there are only the little islands of hatchways
and the tall thin stove-pipe exhaust shooting
out pulses of blue smoke
to show where there is a barge.
The quotation is from Basil Greenhill's Sailing for a Living from 1962....