AFTER SIMON CUTTS, AFTER SAMUEL PALMER. 1999.

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1999
10.5 x 7cm, 4pp, black on brown artist’s card with a poem from Finlay which is based on a Simon Cutts variation on an original by Samuel Palmer the landscape painter and poet:
loosing
the sheets

open-
ing the
hold

fold-
ing the
last

sail

As discussed elsewhere in these cataloguings, the folding of the sail is related both to maintenance of the boats but also the burial of sailors. VG+.