6 PROVERBS. 1997.

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1997
15 x 10.6cm, 16pp with card covers and blue printed dust jacket. Six drawings by Hinks illustrate newly created maritime proverbs by Finlay:

“Cross-winds straight wakes” and “Bilges beget rainbows”.

The former being a metaphor for criticism causing considered responses or a doubling down on an opinion, the second a reference to the way all bilge water shimmers due to the pollution of oil – the new proverb suggesting good things can come from bad. Finlay’s proverbs really should be more commonly used – they are wonderful.
One of only 250 published, VG+