FROM “35 ONE WORD POEMS: OSIRIS”. 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 ticket in close-up. Finlay’s one word poem for this image is “Osiris” with beneath it the word “osiers’. The similarity in the words appeals to the poet and the Egyptian god Osiris was the god of agriculture and by extension fertile growth. Osiers is a type of willow that grows in the wet. VG+.