Poor Old Tired Horse + Broadsides - Unoriginal Sins

03 Feb POTH (POOR OLD TIRED HORSE) NR 3. 1962.

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 POTH (POOR OLD TIRED HORSE) NR 2. 1962.

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 POTH NR 1. (POOR. OLD. TIRED. HORSE.) 1962.

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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