IN THE MANNER OF THE EARLY WINTERS* . 1995

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d.. (1990)
14 x 11.4cm, 4pp printed outer folder with 4pp insert – a typographic design which is part artist’s card and part poem in a folder. There are two poems inside on the inner sheet:

Morning
The solace of chill fields.

and

Evening

A broken bow of geese.

Both simple works reflect the style of the Imagists of which Yvor Winters was a key early figure (along with Pound and Elliot) – simplistic and minimal but accurate in the use of language. Additionally both images in the poem are winter scenes – punning on the poet’s name and the title. VG+.

We have placed this work as an artist’s card because of its promotion as such by Finlay but it could be argued to be otherwise. In fact the Wild Hawthorn Press indicate it is a “valentine” card!