https://unoriginalsins.co.uk AVANT-GARDES Sun, 26 Apr 2020 17:59:44 +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 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk 32 32 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/citron-blue-after-a-detail-in-a-painting-by-william-gillies-1994/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=citron-blue-after-a-detail-in-a-painting-by-william-gillies-1994 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/citron-blue-after-a-detail-in-a-painting-by-william-gillies-1994/#respond Tue, 26 Jul 1994 17:51:21 +0000 https://unoriginalsins.co.uk/?p=19440 Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1994)
63 x 51 cm, blue on white offset lithograph displaying a boat in blue. The drawing by Gary Hincks and after a detail from a painting by WIlliam Gillies.
Yet another example of Finlay's intense interest in maritime affairs and the title reflects other works where the poet compares boats to lemons - even blue lemons.

As I write these words I can walk outside my back garden and see William Gillies's former house in Temple, Midlothian.

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63 x 51 cm, blue on white offset lithograph displaying a boat in blue. The drawing by Gary Hincks and after a detail from a painting by WIlliam Gillies.
Yet another example of Finlay's intense interest in maritime affairs and the title reflects other works where the poet compares boats to lemons - even blue lemons.

As I write these words I can walk outside my back garden and see William Gillies's former house in Temple, Midlothian.

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