ECHOES SERIES. HIDING/PRESENCING.

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1995
11 x 8cm, 8pp plus card covers. Artist’s book with two poems by Finlay that share a similar structure:

willow
dogwood
daylily
azalea

hiding

and

daisy
foxglove
harebell
dog-rose

presencing

The first list of plants are all cultivated, the second list is made up of plants that are usually regarded as weeds or wild. Finlay in a note directs us to C.R. Carswell’s Life of Robert Burns, page 452 – where while Burns is dying:<BR><BR>

“And though it was too late in the year for some of his favourite plants to be in blossom, she and the boys found daisies and foxgloves and harebells and some late dog-roses.” which account for the second list of flowers. VG+.