FROM “35 ONE WORD POEMS: CURFEW”. 1982.

Carlisle: Carlisle Museum & Art Gallery, 1982
14.7 x 10.5cm, 2pp card. One of five cards released during the exhibition ‘Presences of Nature’ – each with a painting by Ian Gardner. Here the illustration shows a country landscape at night. Finlay’s one word poem for this image is “Curfew” with beneath it the word “curlew’. The similarity in the words appeals to the poet as well as the link between hearing the sound of a curlew (a wading bird) and nightfall about to come down. VG+.