Alan Bold - Unoriginal Sins https://unoriginalsins.co.uk AVANT-GARDES Sun, 19 Apr 2020 15:35:39 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cropped-nTKdHdZI-1-1-32x32.png Alan Bold - Unoriginal Sins https://unoriginalsins.co.uk 32 32 A CARBON COPY OF A LETTER FROM FINLAY TO ALAN BOLD. 1982. https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/a-carbon-copy-of-a-letter-from-finlay-to-alan-bold-1982/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-carbon-copy-of-a-letter-from-finlay-to-alan-bold-1982 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/a-carbon-copy-of-a-letter-from-finlay-to-alan-bold-1982/#respond Sat, 09 Oct 1982 15:28:30 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?p=18669 25 x 20cm, original carbon copy on typing paper dated 9.10.82.

A letter sent by Ian Hamilton Finlay to the Scottish poet Alan Bold in which Finlay adds a postscript to an earlier letter - Bold had written publicly that "Scotland is not Strathclyde Region or any of the other bureaucracies..."
This had clearly attracted Finlay's ire (and it was not helped by the fact that Bold was a friend of Hugh MacDiarmid with whom Finlay had fallen out with decades previously.
Finlay asks Bold "what aspect of Scotland you regard as Scotland?" and also "In your view, for example, would a member of the Scottish Arts Council Art Committee be entitled to wear The Kilt".
Signed in blue ink "Ian HF".

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A letter sent by Ian Hamilton Finlay to the Scottish poet Alan Bold in which Finlay adds a postscript to an earlier letter - Bold had written publicly that "Scotland is not Strathclyde Region or any of the other bureaucracies..."
This had clearly attracted Finlay's ire (and it was not helped by the fact that Bold was a friend of Hugh MacDiarmid with whom Finlay had fallen out with decades previously.
Finlay asks Bold "what aspect of Scotland you regard as Scotland?" and also "In your view, for example, would a member of the Scottish Arts Council Art Committee be entitled to wear The Kilt".
Signed in blue ink "Ian HF".

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