IAN HAMILTON FINLAY

POOR OLD TIRED HORSE + BROADSIDES

POTH (POOR OLD TIRED HORSE) NR 24 . 1967. CONCRETE POETRY AT THE BRIGHTON (’67) FESTIVAL

Stoneypath; Wild Hawthorne Press, 1967
30 x 21cm, 12pp. The twenty-fourth number of Finlay’s poetry publication. Designed by Alistair Cant with photographs by Graham Keen. This is a photographic record of visual poetry works exhibited at different sites during the Brighton Festival and a de facto catalogue for the event. Works by Claus Bremer, Eugen Gomringer, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Hansjörg Mayer, John Furnival, Edwin Morgan, Stephen Bann and Kenelm Cox. VG+.

Alistair Cant, Claus Bremer, Edwin Morgan, Eugen Gomringer, Graham Keen, Hansjörg Mayer, John Furnival, Kenelm Cox, Stephen Bann

POTH (POOR OLD TIRED HORSE) NR 25 ONE WORD POEMS. 1967.

Stoneypath; Wild Hawthorne Press, 1967
26 x 21cm, 8pp. The final number of Finlay’s poetry publication. Design and calligraphy by Jim Nicholson. Contributions from Ronald Johnson, Edwin Morgan, George Mackay Brown, Eli Siegel, Jerome Rothenberg, Alkman (translated by Guy Davenport), Hugh Creighton Hill, Stuart Mills, Pedro Xista, Alan Riddell, Martin Seymour-Smith, Kenelm Cox, Giles Gordon, Douglas Young, Edward Lucie-Smith, Stephen Bann, Dick Sheeler, Astrid Gillis, Oswald de Andrade, Ernst Jandl, Gael Turnbull, Aram Saroyan, Jonathan Williams and Ian Hamilton Finlay. VG+.
Finlay whilst not inventing the One Word Poem format certainly helped popularise it - he uses the format in a number of his artist's books. The last poems in this publication are by Finlay and include some of his best known works reformatted in to such a form.

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Alan Riddell, Aram Saroyan, Edward Lucie-Smith, Edwin Morgan, Eli Siegel, Ernst Jandl, Gael Turnbull, George Mackay Brown, Jerome Rothenberg, Jonathan Williams, Oswald de Andrade, Pedro Xista, Ronald Johnson, Stephen Bann, Stuart Mills

POOR OLD TIRED HORSE NUMBERS 1 – 25. 1961 – 1967. 1970. US REPRINT.

NYC: AMS Press Inc, 1970
29 x 12cm, unpaginated. Original blue cloth covered boards with foil embossing of the title on the spine. An authorised reprint of the entire POTH series in a single bound book. Each is in facsimile of the original although nrs 1 - 12 had to be reduced in size by 5% to fit the format.
Surprising in some ways that Finlay agreed to the republication given his tendency to want control over publication quality. I any case this is a very rare publication.
SLight wear to boards else VG.

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