THE WEST COUNTRY STONE BARGE. 1996.

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
9.5 x 15.2cm, 4pp, folding card with a drawing of a row of beached boats in Hastings by Gary Hincks printed black on brown. There are three one line poems inside the card:

The WEST COUNTRY STONE BARGE bares mortal timbers

the HASTINGS LUGGER steers backwards slowly

The LEIGH BAWLEY sails on silent sails.

Finlay as ever likes a pun or an association with a sound – the Bawley (Bawl) is silent not loud, the Lugger goes backwards because traditionally it was launched stern first and the Stone Barge carries wood not stone. VG+.