02 Mar

Posted at 09:40h in Poor Old Tired Horse + Broadsides

Edinburgh; Wild Hawthorne Press, 1962
30 x 21cm, 4pp. The fourth number of Finlay’s poetry publication with contributions by Georg Trakl (translated by Jay Corbett). Spike Hawkins. Heinrich von Morungen (translated by Anselm Hollo). J.F. Hendry. Helen B. Cruickshank. Tom McGrath. Bernard Kops. Alexander McNeish. Suzan Livingstone, and Lorine Niedecker. As usual bits of Scots find themselves near more modern American poems. This is an extremely hard to find early number of this international review - hardly any exist on the open market. This example is overall VG. Copies were sold for 9d each and were sometimes taken around Universities or sold at poetry / literature evenings as well as by subscription.

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18 Feb

Posted at 13:49h in Artist's Books

n.p. : The Wild Flounder Press, 1969
11.7 x 17cm, 32pp. Card wrappers with blue on brown typographic design dust jacket. Finlay's third book of poems - as with other early Finlay poetry the language is Scots with touches of Doric. The poems all relate to animals and other creatures ("inseks" and a "fush") and there are papercuts by John Picking and Pete McGinn. This is the second edition of this book. There is a hand written ink dedication on the half title "For Paul (Robertson) Pette McGinn / 05". VG+ condition.

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16 Feb

Posted at 11:51h in Artist's Books

Worchester and Ventura: Migrant Press, 1960
21.5 x 18cm, 36pp. Original blue on blue wrappers. Second edition of this Finlay's second book of poems - traditional in format mostly and usually in Scots/Doric. This has lino-cut illustrations by Zeljko Kujundzik. Scarce even as a second edition. This example has three hand-corrections by Finlay in the text as well as a tipped on correction to the title poem

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03 Feb

Posted at 09:29h in Poor Old Tired Horse + Broadsides

Edinburgh; Wild Hawthorne Press, 1962
30 x 21cm, 4pp. The third number of Finlay’s poetry publication with contributions by Robert Garioch, Jonathan Williams, Guillaume Apollinaire (translated by Dave Ball), César Lopez Nunez (translated by Jim Haynes); Larry Eigner, R. Crombie Saunders, Libby Houston, Edwin Morgan; Giacomo Leopardi (translated by Edwin Morgan); and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. As usual bits of Scots find themselves near more modern American poems. This is an extremely hard to find early number of this international review - hardly any exist on the open market. This example has been folded once for storage but is overall VG.

Batterday comes roun at last,
tairget of the five-day week,
jist in time to dip your wick;
whitna wey of life is this?

Robert Garioch: Scunner.

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03 Jan

Posted at 20:59h in Poor Old Tired Horse + Broadsides

Edinburgh; Wild Hawthorne Press, 1962
30 x 21cm, 4pp. The second number of Finlay’s poetry publication with contributions by Thomas Anhava, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Shimpei Kusano, Jerome Rothenberg, George Mackay Brown, Gerry A. Zdanowicz, Lesley Lendrum, Cid Corman, Attila Jozsef and Dave Ball. This is an extremely hard to find early number of this international review. A very good example.

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01 Jan

Posted at 15:54h in Poor Old Tired Horse + Broadsides

Edinburgh; Wild Hawthorne Press, 1962
30 x 21cm, 4pp. The first number of Finlay’s international poetry publication (edited by J. McGuffie and P. Pond) with contributions by Pete Brown, Edwin Morgan, Alan Riddell, Anslem Hollo, Gael Turnbull, Lorine Niedecker and one short poem by Finlay himself.
The poems in this first number of the journal are pretty much standard format although there are two sound poems by Pete Brown. Edwin Morgan translates a 19th century poem by Fyodor Tyutchev. Anselm Hollo has a long poem called Orbit which takes space exploration as its theme and Finlay's first POTH published poem is "Another Huge Poem for Hughie" - and it reads like an inside joke and I cannot understand it other than the joke that the "hugeness" of the poem consists of 21 words. VG condition. This is an uber-rare item - hardly any exist on the open market.

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18 Apr

Posted at 13:24h in Artist's Books

Edinburgh: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1961 First edition (2nd edition, Feb 1962; 3rd edition, Jun 1962; 4th edition, Dec 1962) with paper cuts by John Picking and Pete McGinn, saddle-stapled wrappers in printed dust wrapper, 4.5″ x 6.75″, 32 pages. (Murray 3.3)...

01 Jan

Posted at 17:52h in Wild Hawthorn Press

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1961
13 x 19cm, 40pp with dustjacket - inserted ins a 4pp introduction by Ed Dorn. The illustrations are by Waleter Miller. The first Wild Hawthorne Press publication - a notable collection of poems by Neidecker. One of only 250 copies printed. Murray 1.1.
The title poem is thus:

My friend tree
I sawed you down
but I must attend
an older friend
the sun
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27 Sep

Posted at 18:04h in Miscellany

Ventura: Migrant Press, 1960 27 x 21cm, 3pp (two stapled sheets top left), mimeographed. A 2pp text in English about Finlay's poetry (which is not overwhelmingly positive) distributed by the Press who published the poet's first book. The second sheet is a promotional leaflet for "The Dancers Inherit the Party" which a short biographical text about Finlay and promoting "The Seabed and Other Stories" published by the Alna Press. There is also a short bio for the illustrator Zeljko Kujundzie. Both sheets with some browning to the paper but else VG+. Rare early document. ...

27 Jul

Posted at 14:18h in Miscellany

Edinburgh: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1960?) 33 x 21cm, 1pp mimeograph with a text announcing the Wild Hawthorn Press based at this time in Fettes Row Edinburgh. Some quotes by other writers such as Edwin Morgan, Robert Duncan and Hugh Kenner on Finlay's poetry and mention of 'My Friend The Tree' by Lorine Niedecker (published in 1961) and 'Whistling in the Dark' by Finlay, 'Poems and Verses' by Robert Garloch and 'A Very Particular Hill' by Gael Turnbull. The Finlay and Garloch were not published by the Press unless Finlay changed the name of his own collection? The leaflet appears to have been distributed by Migrant Press along with copies of Finlay's second book 'The Dancers Inherit the Party' and to clients. Paper damage to top left and bottom corners and a brown stain on the left. Previously folded but this is a very rare early piee of ephemera relating to the Press. ...

16 Feb

Posted at 11:44h in Artist's Books

Worchester and Ventura: Migrant Press, 1960
21.5 x 18cm, 36pp. Original red on orange wrappers. First edition of this Finlay's second book of poems - traditional in format mostly and usually in Scots/Doric. This has lino-cut illustrations by Zeljko Kujundzik. Scarce true first edition.
JOINT:
A NOTE ON FINLAY'S THE DANCER'S INHERIT THE PARTY BY MICHEAL SHAYER
Worchester and Ventura: Migrant Press, Autumn 1960
30 x 21cm, 4pp mimeograph short essay on Finlay's book along with a promotional leaflet for the book. Some browning and folded to be inserted in the book else VG. Rare.

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