CHRISTMAS ROSE. 2001.
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 2001
4.4 x 7.5cm, 4pp, Artist's card issued as a Christmas card - names of five boats Christina-11, Christmas Rose, Columbus, Corina-II and Conucopia and their port registration symbols are reproduced from a list elsewhere. The name of Christmas Rose is highlighted in pink. Other Xmas cards and prints have emphasis this boat as a symbol of the festive season. VG+.
THE BOAT’S INSEPARABLE RIPPLES.
N.p: n.p., n.p.
17 x 12.3cm, 1pp card. Printed blue on white this is a later printing in card form of an early Finlay poem.
THE BOAT'S
inseparable ripples
The poem was one of the first two-word poems first considered in 1967 but this is almost certainly a posthumous reprint of the work but we do not know exactly the date. It was perhaps printed for a posthumous exhibition of Finlay's work. Until we identify it we will place it as an artist's postcard work.VG+.
IAN HAMILTON FINLAY. 1925 – 2006. IN MEMORIAM CARD.
Edinburgh: Wild Hawthorn Press, 2006
19 x 8cm, 2pp card. This is the memorial card given out at the public memorial service for Ian Hamilton Finlay in Greyfriars Kirk. The front of the card reproduces a painting of flowers called HOROLOGE DE FLORE - which is a flower clock. Time having run out for the poet. This is, to our mind, the last of the "official" cards released by the Press although some were released posthumously as part of exhibitions or as fund=raising efforts. VG+.
MERRY CHRISTMAS CARD. LITTLE SPARTA TRUST 2006.
Little Sparta: Little Sparta Trust, 2006 10.5 x 14.8cm, 4pp. A posthumous Christmas card from the Trust with an image of the Little Fields stone wall installation seen through the branches of a red berried bush - framing the scene like a Xmas wreath. VG+.