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Artist's Postcards
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1998
10.7 x 7.8cm, 4pp artist's card printed black on white with a line drawing by Gary Hincks of a rudder. Internally there is a Finlay poem:
sanding a rudder
sawing a rudder
painting a rudder
patching a rudder
sealing a rudder
shipping a rudder
writing a rudder
The poem touches on all aspects of how a rudder might be made - that is, the way in which the unmade wood is guided into being a rudder. And at the end the final line refers to the foregoing - how to describe (write about /textually guide the way it is made) eight lines. Very self-referential. This work is dedicated by Finlay to Graham Rich and Ian Stephen, two friends who made much of their work about the sea and boats. VG+.
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