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]]> 19 x 8cm, 2pp card. This is the memorial card given out at the public memorial service for Ian Hamilton Finlay in Greyfriars Kirk. The front of the card reproduces a painting of flowers called HOROLOGE DE FLORE - which is a flower clock. Time having run out for the poet. This is, to our mind, the last of the "official" cards released by the Press although some were released posthumously as part of exhibitions or as fund=raising efforts. VG+.

]]> https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/ian-hamilton-finlay-1925-2006-in-memoriam-card/feed/ 0 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/the-boats-inseparable-ripples/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-boats-inseparable-ripples https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/the-boats-inseparable-ripples/#respond Sun, 16 Apr 2006 11:33:27 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?p=25836 17 x 12.3cm, 1pp card. Printed blue on white this is a later printing in card form of an early Finlay poem.

THE BOAT'S

inseparable ripples

The poem was one of the first two-word poems first considered in 1967 but this is almost certainly a posthumous reprint of the work but we do not know exactly the date. It was perhaps printed for a posthumous exhibition of Finlay's work. Until we identify it we will place it as an artist's postcard work.VG+.

]]> 17 x 12.3cm, 1pp card. Printed blue on white this is a later printing in card form of an early Finlay poem.

THE BOAT'S

inseparable ripples

The poem was one of the first two-word poems first considered in 1967 but this is almost certainly a posthumous reprint of the work but we do not know exactly the date. It was perhaps printed for a posthumous exhibition of Finlay's work. Until we identify it we will place it as an artist's postcard work.VG+.

]]> https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/the-boats-inseparable-ripples/feed/ 0 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/christmas-rose-2001/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=christmas-rose-2001 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/christmas-rose-2001/#respond Sat, 15 Dec 2001 22:09:55 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?p=25113 4.4 x 7.5cm, 4pp, Artist's card issued as a Christmas card - names of five boats Christina-11, Christmas Rose, Columbus, Corina-II and Conucopia and their port registration symbols are reproduced from a list elsewhere. The name of Christmas Rose is highlighted in pink. Other Xmas cards and prints have emphasis this boat as a symbol of the festive season. VG+.

]]> 4.4 x 7.5cm, 4pp, Artist's card issued as a Christmas card - names of five boats Christina-11, Christmas Rose, Columbus, Corina-II and Conucopia and their port registration symbols are reproduced from a list elsewhere. The name of Christmas Rose is highlighted in pink. Other Xmas cards and prints have emphasis this boat as a symbol of the festive season. VG+.

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He sprawls
on the grass

a boat
in his hand,

his big flung-down
felt hat
another.

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He sprawls
on the grass

a boat
in his hand,

his big flung-down
felt hat
another.

VG+. ]]> https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/boy-in-a-field-2001/feed/ 0 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/4-2001/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=4-2001 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/4-2001/#respond Sat, 16 Jun 2001 10:18:42 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?p=25797 12.6 x 2.7cm, 4pp, black on orange card with internally four Finlay poems each considering aspects of a fishing village and community - such as:

CHANGE OF USE

rain-filled
September boats
becoming ponds
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]]> 12.6 x 2.7cm, 4pp, black on orange card with internally four Finlay poems each considering aspects of a fishing village and community - such as:

CHANGE OF USE

rain-filled
September boats
becoming ponds
VG+

]]> https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/4-2001/feed/ 0 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/the-other-way-to-edinburgh-2000/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-other-way-to-edinburgh-2000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/the-other-way-to-edinburgh-2000/#respond Tue, 16 May 2000 10:32:37 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?p=25822 8 x 17.9cm, 4pp artist's card with a landscape drawing by Gary Hincks. Internally there is a poem by Finlay:

THE OTHER WAY TO EDINBURGH

(Farmsteads, streams,
serious woods),

the rainstorm's portcullis
closes the view.

One of a number of such cards with detailed illustrations of poems, in the same dramatic style, by Hincks all published in the same year. Finlay's reference to the rainstorm's portcullis is the raging rain coming down in sheets that look like vertical lines on the horizon. VG+.

]]> 8 x 17.9cm, 4pp artist's card with a landscape drawing by Gary Hincks. Internally there is a poem by Finlay:

THE OTHER WAY TO EDINBURGH

(Farmsteads, streams,
serious woods),

the rainstorm's portcullis
closes the view.

One of a number of such cards with detailed illustrations of poems, in the same dramatic style, by Hincks all published in the same year. Finlay's reference to the rainstorm's portcullis is the raging rain coming down in sheets that look like vertical lines on the horizon. VG+.

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