Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1995
13 x 10.9cm, 1pp. The names of different fishing boats from around the coasts of Britain are arranged in a "constellation" form poem - the names are if read aloud sound poems - Mans Nobby and Manx Nickey, Fifie Skiff and Scaffie Yawl, Banff Zulu and Buckie Scaffie are matched up in pairs for instance.
The names and forms of boats has always fascinated Finlay who lived in a fisherman's community in his early life. VG+.

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London: Edward Woodman, 1995
20.5 x 25.5cm, b/w silver gelatine original photograph of the Finlay public work "THE EVOLUTION OF THE BOAT" installed on a canal side in London. The work being a metal plaque with the text:

EVOLUTION OF THE BOAT

long boat
narrow boat
Short flying BOAT

Unique print showing a close up of the metal plaque.

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London: Edward Woodman, 1995
20.5 x 25.5cm, b/w silver gelatine original photograph of the Finlay public work "THE EVOLUTION OF THE BOAT" installed on a canal side in London. The work being a metal plaque with the text:

EVOLUTION OF THE BOAT

long boat
narrow boat
Short flying BOAT

Unique print showing the situation of the work.

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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1995
4 x 7cm, 4pp black on green folded card. Inside the poem is

ARCADIA
Rubber-powered aircraft are successfully launched over long grass on a calm day.
An image of childhood play with models is seen as an idyll of rural life. VG+.

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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1995
6 x 12cm, 4pp. A monostich is a one line poem -
Inside the poem reads "It rains, and the old thatched hut blossoms again".

Finlay is comparing the new foliage after spring's rains to the roofing made of branches in traditional homes. VG+.

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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. 9.8 x 8.6cm, 4pp artist's postcard that show a drawing of a republican liberty cap on the front by Gary Hincks. Inside is a poem by Finlay:

For P.E.

A cap
of liberty
with a Spitfire
roundel

In place of the traditional cockade in blue, red and white is a Spitfire (airplane) roundel which is in the same colours (sometimes yellow or orange is a further outer colour). A reminder of the weapon is added to the revolutionary symbol - terror being alongside virtue. VG+. ...

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. 9.8 x 8.6cm, 4pp artist's postcard that show a drawing of mouthwash bottles on the front by gary Hincks. Inside is a poem by Finlay:

Des Esseintes

The muddied
colours of
the mouthwash
cocktails

Jean des Esseintes is a fictional character in a novel by Joris-Karl Huysmans. The character hates the modern world and lives an eccentric, reclusive life in an aesthetic of his own making. Presumably Finlay dislikes the plastic fuctionalism of mouthwash bottles. VG+. ...

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1995 12 x 8.8cm, 4pp. Artist's card with two drawings front and back by Gary Hincks after texts by Bridgey Penney (A Catch of Poems about the Shipping Forecast) and Homer's Odyssey (Book XI) - the first drawing shows two boats, one of which is named Morning Star (the name of son Eck Finlay's small press) against a sunrise and the second an oar sunk into the ground as a form of monument. The first has the text BILLOWS PILLOWS under it and the second BILLOW WINNOW. The "pillows" of the first are nets and folded sails being caught by the wind, and the second similar pair of words meaning the wind through grass. VG+. ...

Cambridge: Kettle's Yard, 1995
15 x 21cm, 24pp plus card covers. A documentation of the various artists who had previously exhibited (intervened) at the gallery who all exhibited in a group show. Finlay notes in a short text that he has a "sentimental regard for Kettle's Yard as the apotheosis of English Pebble Culture in the 1930s". Finlay had previously exhibited a number of small works on polished rocks and "pebbles" in the gallery - Unnatural Pebbles - one work is shown full page "KETTLE'S YARD CAMBRIDGE ENGLAND IS THE LOUVRE OF THE PEBBLE". Other artists included David Nash, Michael Craig- Martin, Richard Deacon, Richard Wentworth and others. VG+.

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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1995
5.4 x 4.3cm, 8pp, plus card covers and printed cream dust jacket. Internally there is a text:

"Apples are points in the fields of Eragny".

The painting "Fields of Eragny" is by the pointilliste Camille Pissarro - an art style that was made up by coloured dots on the canvas that "mixed in the retina" (although in actuality more like the visual cortex). Hence an apple in the painting would be nothing more than a dot due to both the style and the distance the painter was from the tree. VG+.

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