01 Jan POTH (POOR OLD TIRED HORSE) NR 11. 1964. WITH “OPENINGS” INSERT.
Edinburgh; Wild Hawthorne Press, 1964
26 x 21cm, 4pp. The eleventh number of Finlay’s poetry publication with each page a reproduced design by John Picking. POTH was here printed for the first time in two colours – blue and yellow. This number is designated as the “Lollipop Number” – and the shape of a lollipop is a re-occurring motif in the drawings. The contributions are by Apollinaire, J.F. Hendry, Horace, Renzo Laurano, Ann McGarrell, Christian Morgenstern, John Picking, Michael Shayer, Kurt Sigel and Robert Simmons.
INSERTED:
OPENINGS.
2 x 15cm, 4pp. Folded single sheet. Promotional leaflet for John Furnival’s Openings Press with contact details being for Furnival but also Dom Pierre Houedard (dsh). VG.