Ian Hamilton Finlay Selections [Hardcover]

This volume surveys the life and work of the Scottish poet Ian Hamilton Finlay, who is best known for his extraordinary garden, Little Sparta, a unique poem of place in which poetry, sculpture, and horticulture intersect. This book directs sustained attention to Finlay the verbal artist, revealing the full breadth and richness of his poetics. It illuminates the evolution from his early years of composing plays, stories, and lyrical poems to his discovery of Concrete poetry and his emergence as a key figure in the international avant-garde of the 1960s.

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Acknowledgments
Autobiographical Sketch
Introduction: Picking the Last Wild Flower

EARLY WRITINGS
Postcard from Glenlednoch
The Money
Walking through Seaweed

From The Dancers Inherit the Party:
The Dancers Inherit the Party
Angles of Stamps
O.H.M.S.
Love Poem
Ah, So That Is Why
Bedtime
Black Tomintoul
Gift
Frank the Bear Writes His Deb Friend
Orkney Interior
Optimist
Milk Bottles
Archie, the Lyrical Lamplighter
The Writer and Beauty
Finlays House (in Rousay)
The Chief Crop of Orkney
Bi-Lingual Poem
Island Moment
Castles
Jess
The Island Beasts Wait for the Boat
Two Variations on an Orkney Theme, with Notes
Orkney Lyrics
Twice
Spring Holiday
Catch
Art Student
Scene
Poet
End of a Holiday
The Tug

Glasgow Beasts, An a Burd
Voyage
Fishing from the Back of Rousay
Another Huge Poem for Hughie
Blossom Quarry, Rousay
How to Be Happy
Lucys Wee Brother
My Little Beat Mill in the West
Poem on My Poem on Her and the Horse
Such Is the World
Lucky
Midhope (All Gone)
Dalchonzie
The Pond of Oo (in Orkney)
No Thl“ñ