04 Sep WORKS IN DURHAM. 1996.
Durham: University of Durham 1996
21 x 10cm, 6pp announcement leaflet with three reproductions of works by Finlay. Internally short text by Harry Gilonis. VG+.
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01 Sep THISTLEDOWN. 1996
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
7.6 x 6.9cm, 4pp, A drawing of a thistledown by Gary Hincks on the front of the card has a poem by Finlay inside:
THISTLEDOWN
BR>
the early snows of thistledown
the airy asterisks of thistledown
the clotted cream of thistledown
the distant peaks of thistledown
Four different one line visual poems by Finlay all use thistledown as their essential metaphor. Thistledown is white and fluffy which is somewhat strange given the astringency of the rest of the thistle. VG+.
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28 Aug BUILDING THE HULL. 1996.
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
10.8 x 7cm, 4pp, A drawing of two parts of a model boat hull by Gary Hincks has internally:
BUILDING THE HULL
First plank
this half
then plank
that half
then wonder why
2 matching halves
won't fit
The word plank here has a double meaning - in lowland Scots it means "to place" - hence the poem can be read as either a description of bad design or bad construction. VG+.
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14 Aug JACOB’S BOAT. 1996.
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1996)
8 x 7.5cm, 16pp plus printed card covers. Artist's book which prints four pages of four colours with the letters in a 5 x 5 lattice - GREEN, BROWN, BLACK, OCHRE followed by the same lattice with the word PATCH. Finally the whole is identified as "Jacob's Boat" on the last page. VG+.
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14 Aug CALYPSO. 1996.
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
8 x 10cm, 6pp outer folder with an image of a starfish content of 6 8 x 10cm double sided cards.
One initially thinks there has been a printing error as the back of the cards seems upside down but if read in sequence the first side tells the story of a kidnapping of three Naval Protection Officers after a raid on a French trawler - La Calypso - by its crew, with the officers only released after a return to France. Red in the other direction the story of Calypso saving the life of Ulysses and holding him for seven years in her cave.
Finlay always enjoyed a naming co-incidence and the two stories obviously parallel each other in many respects. Small vignettes by Laura Gerahty. VG+
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12 Aug HOT DAY. 1996.
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
9.8 x 4.1cm, 4pp artist's card with a drawing by Jo Hincks on the front and inside a poem by Finlay:
HOT
DAY
Gary
Vida
Rhoda
Jo
in
boats
12.7.96
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06 Aug EXPECTATION. 1996.
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1996)
13 x 9.5cm, 4pp artist's card with a reproduced watercolour drawing of a blue sailship by Gary Hincks and a long "quotation" supposedly from Heinrich von Osterdingen which Finlay dubs "An Alternative Opening" where a young man thinks about a tale of a blue sailboat and how much he would love to see such a thing. In a 1802 book about Heinrich von Osterdingen by Novalis the young man dreams about a blue flower (rather than a boat). The blue flower became a regular reference in symbolism for romance - here Finlay alters the symbolism to that of the sea and long voyagesVG+.
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02 Aug NEW BOAT. 1996.
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
7.8 x 7.8cm, 4pp, A drawing of a boat's rudder by Gary Hincks on the front of the card has a poem by Finlay inside:
NEW BOAT
BR>
Pintles cast bronze -
Rudder mahogany -
Varnish like ice on
A clear water pool.
A pintle is the attachment for a rudder. Finlay has other works that liken the varnish found on a rudder to ice. VG+.
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01 Aug ECHOES. SERIES: AFTER LZ. 1996.
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
14 x 6.4cm, 4pp, The poem (after Louis Zukofsky) is
AFTER LZ
BR>
an
other
in
equality
wild
flower
The pairs of words when conjoined change the meaning to the opposite - which is also true of the last two words which are spaced apart to make the pairing less obvious. VG+.
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27 Jul DROWNED FISH? FEATHER? 1996.
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
14 x 7.6cm, 4pp, A two part poem is illustrated by Gary Hincks with three feathers:
Drowned
fish?
feather
drowned
fish?
Finlay's fondness for minimal changes in word order is here - giving different images - a "drowned fish" (something which is not possible unless you change the definition of "drown") may be a feather that has been mistakenly identified, a feather drowned in turn might be seen to be a fish. VG+.
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24 Jul CHAIN. 1996.
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
7.7 x 7cm, 4pp, outer folder with an internal tipped in 14.3 x 6cm (open size) sheet with the word Daisy repeated seven times in different type fonts. Literally making a daisy chain. VG+.
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16 Jul MAP OF STOCKTON PARK INCLUDING “HAMILTON FINLAY SCULPTURE GARDEN”. 1996.
Luton: Stockwood Park, n.d. (1996)
21 x 30, 1pp offset printed green on white - a site map of Stockwood Park which shows Finlay's "Improvement Garden" as an important area to visit. Finlay created for the venue a classical garden in which the sculptures are an integral part of the landscape. Folded for storage and a few ink words written on back including the date else VG+.
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