TWO TRANSLATIONS. 1983.

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1983
20.5 x 15.5cm , 1pp black on white card. The typographically designed card has two “translations:” which are poetic rather than accurate:
Ferme ornee
armoured farm
and
Arroisir
evening arrow
Hence ‘ornate farm’ becomes an ‘armoured farm’ and “watering can” becomes “evening arrow” both of which suggest the militarisation of the grounds. A reaction to Finlay’s worries about his enemies coming to Little Sparta and stealing his assets as had happened in March of the same year as publication. VG+.