Poems in folders - Unoriginal Sins https://unoriginalsins.co.uk AVANT-GARDES Sun, 13 Mar 2022 13:08:49 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cropped-nTKdHdZI-1-1-32x32.png Poems in folders - Unoriginal Sins https://unoriginalsins.co.uk 32 32 PRINZ EUGEN. 1999? https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/prinz-eugen-1999/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=prinz-eugen-1999 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/prinz-eugen-1999/#respond Thu, 27 May 1999 19:33:31 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?p=23485 Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1999?)

8 x 20.5cm, 4pp outer folded with a black on deep blue drawing of the famous heavy cruiser. Internally there is a 8 x 20.5cm, 4p printed sheet with a poem:


PRINZ EUGEN*

Her nouns were round, her verbs were straight and swift


The poem sees the battleship as a sentence - the actions of this war machine are immediate and once presumes deadly, it's shape and form more aesthetic.
One of Finlay's poems in a folder although the format could be seen as a card.
VG+.

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8 x 20.5cm, 4pp outer folded with a black on deep blue drawing of the famous heavy cruiser. Internally there is a 8 x 20.5cm, 4p printed sheet with a poem:


PRINZ EUGEN*

Her nouns were round, her verbs were straight and swift


The poem sees the battleship as a sentence - the actions of this war machine are immediate and once presumes deadly, it's shape and form more aesthetic.
One of Finlay's poems in a folder although the format could be seen as a card.
VG+.

The post PRINZ EUGEN. 1999? appeared first on Unoriginal Sins.]]> https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/prinz-eugen-1999/feed/ 0 ECHOES SERIES. 1995. https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/echoes-series-1995/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=echoes-series-1995 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/echoes-series-1995/#respond Thu, 22 Jun 1995 21:56:24 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?p=22869 Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1995

16 x 11cm, 4pp orange outer folder with printed title. Internally a 16 x 11cm, 4pp sheet with two concrete poems both entitled THE INSCRIPTIONS but the first being for Carl Rakosi and the second for Harry Gilonis.

The former is an objectivist poet, the latter a friend of Finlay's and also a poet. The first form of the poem is duplicated in both but in the second Finlay has crossed out the original words, kept the physical structure but the classical names replaced by names of meaning to Gilonis. The echo here being the similarities in the two poems.

This is one of a series of works which the Wild Hawthorn Press denoted as "Poems in folders". VG+.

The post ECHOES SERIES. 1995. appeared first on Unoriginal Sins.]]> The post ECHOES SERIES. 1995. appeared first on Unoriginal Sins.]]> https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/echoes-series-1995/feed/ 0 AN EARLY PICASSO. 1994. https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/an-early-picasso-1994/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=an-early-picasso-1994 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/an-early-picasso-1994/#respond Fri, 26 Aug 1994 10:44:20 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?p=23342 Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn, 1994


11.7 x 10.8cm, 4pp outer printed blue folder content of a 11.7 x 10.8cm, 4pp printed purple insert with a text poem by Finaly. The full title of the work is "AN EARLY PICASSO IN J.L. DAVID" below which is a text from revolutionary sources about how female citizens should dress for one of the major public festivals encouraged by the National Convention. The description is suggested by Finlay to be equivalent of a Picasso painting but 200 years beforehand.

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17.5 x 14.5cm, 4pp light green outer folder with printed title. Internally a 17.5 x 14.5cm, 4pp sheet with two concrete poems left and right

The left poem repeats the word oval as a central spine to the work with the words leaf blue song pink foal grey on both sides with the letters emboldened to create a rough oval of the letters (see photograph). The right hand poem has the same physical structure but the words leaf blue song pink foal grey become the central spine of the design and the word oval is repeated above, below and on both sides.

This is one of a series of works which the Wild Hawthorn Press denoted as "Poems in folders". VG+.

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18 x 14cm, 4pp brown outer folder content of a 4pp insert with a poem by Finlay:


AUTUMN.


The woods
milestones


The mountains


signposts.


Finlay indicates how the distant hills act as means of orientating a traveller and the trees act as steps on the way in any rural journey. VG+.

The post AUTUMN. appeared first on Unoriginal Sins.]]> The post AUTUMN. appeared first on Unoriginal Sins.]]> https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/autumn/feed/ 0 THE ROAD TO VINCENNES. 1992. https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/the-road-to-vincennes-1992/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-road-to-vincennes-1992 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/the-road-to-vincennes-1992/#respond Thu, 22 Oct 1992 11:21:25 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?p=22769 Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1992

8.1 x 6.8cm, 4pp green outer folder with a drawing by Gary Hincks. Internally a 8.1 x 6.8cm, 4pp sheet with a text telling a tale of a discussion of "the moral effects of the arts and sciences" after stopping at an avenue of chestnut trees.

The text is in two parts - one taken from Thomas A. Clark and the other referring to an essay by Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
The title of the work refers to the attempted escape of the French king and queen while being held hostage during the first months of the French revolution - they were stopped on the way because a shop keeper recognised the King's striking (ie big nosed) visage from the coin of the realm and escorted back to the capital.
Together Finlay has created a new story of morals and escape from unthinking philosophies of behaviour.
This is one of a series of works which the Wild hawthorn Press denoted as "Poems in folders". VG+.

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15.3 x 11.1cm, 4pp grey outer folder with a drawing of a fallen leaves printed in green. Internally a 15.3 x 11.1cm, 4pp sheet with a poem:


SUICIDE NOTE


"The canoe
of life
is shattered.."


The windblown
willows' leaves
hide the path.



The suicide note referred to is from the Russian avant-garde poet Mayakovsky. The reference to the 'canoe of life is shattered" is a direct quote from his despairing final letter. Finlay brings attention to the shape of the willow leaves that have fallen (shattered by the wind) to the ground. The image on the front of the folder also shows that death of the leaves.


This is one of a series of works which the Wild Hawthorn Press denoted as "Poems in folders". VG+.

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19 x 14.5cm, 4pp green on white printed card (with an image of a second world war fighter plane flying over open water. Internally a 19 x 14.5cm, 4pp green on white printed card with the names of five military airplanes (fighters, bombers and reconnaissance planes) and their dates of service much as one would name dead combatants. All of the planes had names based on popular English forenames. Murray has this (in the supplement to his catalogue raisonee as a poem in a folder so we have continued that classification.

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19 x 14.5cm, 4pp green on white printed card (with an image of a second world war fighter plane flying over open water. Internally a 19 x 14.5cm, 4pp green on white printed card with the names of five military airplanes (fighters, bombers and reconnaissance planes) and their dates of service much as one would name dead combatants. All of the planes had names based on popular English forenames. Murray has this (in the supplement to his catalogue raisonee as a poem in a folder so we have continued that classification.

The post INSCRIPTION. 1992. appeared first on Unoriginal Sins.]]> https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/inscription-1999/feed/ 0 SUBLIME. 1991. https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/sublime-1991/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sublime-1991 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/sublime-1991/#respond Mon, 22 Apr 1991 21:48:12 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?p=22865 Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1991

11 x 15.5cm, 4pp blue outer folder. Internally a 11 x 15.5cm, 4pp sheet with a poem:


SUBLIME


Where the eagles circle in
darkness, the sons of the
Alps cross from precipice
to precipice, fearlessly,
on the flimsiest rope
bridges.


In the Place de la Revolution

the man-made mountain

torrent clatters
and clatters.


The first half of the poem is from Hegel, the second Finlay refers to the increasing pile of heads (which did not really happen but is a popular historical meme) caused by the clattering guillotine.

This is one of a series of works which the Wild Hawthorn Press denoted as "Poems in folders". VG+.

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13.6 x 8.9cm, 4pp unprinted outer folder content of 4pp insert. Finlay's poem has only three words/lines after the title:<BR><BR>

Sackcloth<BR><BR>

Stars<BR><BR>

woven<BR><BR>

in<BR><BR>

The lowly fabric (traditionally made out of goats hair) is given a greater status by Finlay's perception that the wove of the cloth looks like stars.  VG+ although slight corner crease to front of the plain light brown cover.

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13.6 x 8.9cm, 4pp unprinted outer folder content of 4pp insert. Finlay's poem has only three words/lines after the title:<BR><BR>

Sackcloth<BR><BR>

Stars<BR><BR>

woven<BR><BR>

in<BR><BR>

The lowly fabric (traditionally made out of goats hair) is given a greater status by Finlay's perception that the wove of the cloth looks like stars.  VG+ although slight corner crease to front of the plain light brown cover.

The post SACKCLOTH. 1991. appeared first on Unoriginal Sins.]]> MORNING/RILL. 1990. https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/morning-rill-1990/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=morning-rill-1990 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/morning-rill-1990/#respond Tue, 23 Oct 1990 21:44:33 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?p=22863 Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1990

13.4 x 11cm, 4pp blue outer folder with a drawing of a bird. Internally a 13.4 x 11cm, 4pp sheet with a poem:


Morning and evening

dove

rill
in its throat.



This is one of a series of works which the Wild Hawthorn Press denoted as "Poems in folders". VG+.

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13.4 x 11cm, 4pp blue outer folder with a drawing of a broken tree branch with leaves. Internally a 13.4 x 11cm, 4pp sheet with a poem:


Broken

willow branch

bent
to the pool



Willow branches usually take a structure where they bend to the ground - a broken willow branch is doubling down on the phenomena.

This is one of a series of works which the Wild Hawthorn Press denoted as "Poems in folders". VG+.

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