ADAPTION. 1994.

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1994
7.9 x 6.5cm, 4pp. The Christmas song “O Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum” is echoed in a translation that changes the Christmas tree to a Hazelgrove.

O Hazelgrove, O Hazelgrove,
How beautiful is thy gear.

Hazelgrove being the name of a trawler – BCK 35 – out of Fleetwood. The gear being its equipment. (The number is now allocated to a new ship). VG+.