FOR MY BIRTHDAY. 1995.

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1995
11 x 11cm, 4pp, Artist's card printed black on white with a drawing of a boat and inside a poem by Finlay:

FOR MY
BIRTHDAY

I
want a

Kit
Wood

kit

On the surface this is a simple birthday request for a model boat kit made of wood however the boat drawing is of PZ134 - a wooden fishing boat called the Ocean Pride which was originally built in 1919. It was being restored by various enthusiasts - hence the real boat is a kit being made by hobbyists as well. VG+.

UNTITLED. UNFOLDER. CHRISTMAS 1995.

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
Three nested sheets, each 15 x 11cm (closed size), with texts on the folds and an illustration by Gary Hincks of a Zulu Skiff in the centre sheet. The work can be slowly opened to read in order:

UNTITLED UNFOLDER

bow curves bow cleaves

sail powers sail steadies

rudder steers stern stitches

TT 117 zulu skiff

Part of the :"Echoes series" this work is a variation on another poet's work - here Ian Stephen. The card is noted as being Christmas 1995 but also Easter 1996. VG+.

LONGING. 1995.

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1995
12.7 x 8.6cm, 4pp, Artist's card printed black on blue with a poem by Finlay called LONGING.

to see
to see if it were
if it were but the smoke
the smoke going up
going up from the houses
the houses
of rocky
Ithaca

The poem describes the longing and homesickness of Ulysses for his home. VG+.

THE DEEP-RED BROWN. 1995.

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1995
7.2 x 8cm, 4pp. Artist's card printed red on light yellow with an abstract drawing by Gary Hincks on the front that looks like a close up of sackcloth .
Internally there is a translation of two lines from a fragment from Archilochus the Greek poet:
The deep red-brown
of rain-wet sailcloth

The poem is reflected in the drawing. VG+.

VILLAGE. HOMAGE TO GABRIELE MUNTER. 1996.

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
11 x 11 cm, 4pp black on white folding card. The poem internally reads:

VILLAGE

red houses.
yellow houses
blue houses
greenhouses

Gabriele Münter was a female German expressionist painter from the turn of the 20th century. Her work often showed rural landscapes including villages with the colours being bright (like Fauvism). Finlay's poem listing these bright buildings ends humorously with the pun of "greenhouses". VG+.

(CLASSICAL) LANDSCAPE. 1996.

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 2000
7 x 12.6cm, 4pp artist's card with a landscape drawing by Kathleen Lindsley. Internally there is a definition work by Finlay:

(Classical) landscape, n. a stand of concepts.

Finlay's definition is aware of the long traditions and ideas behind both landscape gardening and the painting of such scenes. VG+.

HER HANDWRITING: SPRING WATER. A VALENTINE. 1996.

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
9 x 11 cm, 4pp black on white folding card. The poem internally reads:

Her handwriting spring water.
(Her words, river-washes pebbles).

The flowing hand-writing is compared with the importance of the lover's words. VG+.

1943. 1996.

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
8.4 x 12.6cm, 4pp black on white folding card with the drawing by Gary Hincks of a second world war bomber with a woman as "nose art". The poem internally reads:

1943

Lovely ladies lolling in lingerie
on the noses of B17's. (sic)

The alliterative first line brings to mind real seductresses and the second clearly places the reality of the second world war habit of having female images painted on the front of the bomber planes. VG+.

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