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The proper title for this work might be "Texts for a Paved Area Adjacent To A Barn" - which is exactly with what this attractively designed booklet is about. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Cover designed by Laurie Clark. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poem is a metaphor for Finlay's dispute with the Strathclyde region tax collectors on a background of camouflage coloring or cloudy dark sky (?). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Janeczko selected the concrete poems in books published by established concrete poets. Chris Raschka illustrated the poems with semirealistic and surrealistic comic-like characters to create picture poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the fourth publication of Finlay's press. Linocuts, consisting of abstract images, scattered throughout the book adjacent to the poems were done by Alexander McNeish. The themes of the poems mainly relate to Turnbull's travels in Canada and America. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Note that "Tonto or" No.7 pamphlet that was included in this collection is stored in a portfolio box with other issues of "Tonto or." This collection also includes two Standing Poems by Ian Hamilton Finlay and Opening Numbers 2 & 4 edited by John Furnival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This is a photograph taken by George Oliver of an aircraft carrier sculpture in the foregound [entitled albion] and bushes in the background in Finlay's garden at Stonypath. The number of copies of this photograph are unknown but probably only a handful. Wikipedia: HMS Albion (R07) was a 22,000 ton Centaur-class light fleet carrier of the Royal Navy. She was built by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd. Her keel was laid down in March 1944 and she was launched in May 1947. On 18 October 1949, she was under tow by tugs Beamish, Hendon and George V from Jarrow to Rosyth when Albion was in collision with SS Maystone 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) from the Longstone Lighthouse. Mayston sank, Albion had a 225 square feet (20.9 m2) hole in her stern and started to sink. The three tugs attempted to beach her near St Abbs Head but were hampered when Hector became disabled when a tow rope wrapped around her propellor. Tug HMS Restive was sent from Rosyth to assist and destroyer HMS St James...

Scope and Contents This is a photograph taken by George Oliver of an aircraft carrier sculpture in the foregound [entitled eagle] and bushes in the background in Finlay's garden at Stonypath. The number of copies of this photograph are unknown but probably only a handful. Wikipedia: HMS Eagle was an early aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy. Ordered by Chile during the South American dreadnought race as the Almirante Latorre-class battleship Almirante Cochrane, she was laid down before World War I. In early 1918 she was purchased by Britain for conversion to an aircraft carrier; this work was finished in 1924. Her completion was delayed by labour troubles and the possibility that she might be repurchased by Chile for reconversion into a battleship, as well as the need for comparative trials to determine the optimum layout for aircraft carriers. The ship was initially assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet and then later to the China Station, spending very little time in home waters other than for...

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This is a photograph taken by George Oliver of an aircraft carrier sculpture fountain in the foreground [entitled Karl Doorman] with the Albion sculpture in the background in Finlay's garden at Stonypath. The number of copies of this photograph are unknown but probably only a handful. Wikipedia: Karel Willem Frederik Marie Doorman (April 23, 1889 "“ February 28, 1942) was a Dutch Rear Admiral who commanded ABDACOM Naval forces, a hastily-organized multinational naval force formed to defend the East Indies against an overwhelming Imperial Japanese attack. Doorman was killed and the main body of ABDACOM Naval forces destroyed during the Battle of the Java Sea. Between 1946 and 2006 the Royal Dutch Navy named three vessels after Karel Doorman, including a former British Colossus class aircraft carrier, the largest ship the Navy ever commissioned. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a close-up photograph taken by George Oliver of the aircraft carrier sculpture fountain [entitled Karl Doorman]in the background in Finlay's garden at Stonypath. The number of copies of this photograph are unknown but probably only a handful. Wikipedia: Karel Willem Frederik Marie Doorman (April 23, 1889 "“ February 28, 1942) was a Dutch Rear Admiral who commanded ABDACOM Naval forces, a hastily-organized multinational naval force formed to defend the East Indies against an overwhelming Imperial Japanese attack. Doorman was killed and the main body of ABDACOM Naval forces destroyed during the Battle of the Java Sea. Between 1946 and 2006 the Royal Dutch Navy named three vessels after Karel Doorman, including a former British Colossus class aircraft carrier, the largest ship the Navy ever commissioned. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a photograph taken by George Oliver of an aircraft carrier sculpture in the backgound [entitled albion] and another of an aircraft carrier sculpture fountain in the foreground [entitled Karl Doorman] in Finlay's garden at Stonypath. The number of copies of this photograph are unknown but probably only a handful. Wikipedia: Karel Willem Frederik Marie Doorman (April 23, 1889 "“ February 28, 1942) was a Dutch Rear Admiral who commanded ABDACOM Naval forces, a hastily-organized multinational naval force formed to defend the East Indies against an overwhelming Imperial Japanese attack. Doorman was killed and the main body of ABDACOM Naval forces destroyed during the Battle of the Java Sea. Between 1946 and 2006 the Royal Dutch Navy named three vessels after Karel Doorman, including a former British Colossus class aircraft carrier, the largest ship the Navy ever commissioned. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a photograph taken by George Oliver of an aircraft carrier sculpture fountain in the foreground [entitled Karl Doorman] with people in the background in Finlay's garden at Stonypath. The number of copies of this photograph are unknown but probably only a handful. Wikipedia: Karel Willem Frederik Marie Doorman (April 23, 1889 "“ February 28, 1942) was a Dutch Rear Admiral who commanded ABDACOM Naval forces, a hastily-organized multinational naval force formed to defend the East Indies against an overwhelming Imperial Japanese attack. Doorman was killed and the main body of ABDACOM Naval forces destroyed during the Battle of the Java Sea. Between 1946 and 2006 the Royal Dutch Navy named three vessels after Karel Doorman, including a former British Colossus class aircraft carrier, the largest ship the Navy ever commissioned. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Drawings are silhouettes of fighter aircraft viewed from above. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Gardner iIlustrates eight brief poems by Ian Hamilton Finlay (3), Stuart Mills (2), and Simon Cutts (3) with abstract colored designs on facing pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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According to documents in the Archive of this project, Finlay negotiated with Kenward Elmslie for its publication and it was included in an anthology he edited, ZZZZZZ, 1977. The images consist of toy airplanes on an ironing board to simulated an air craft carrie A toy iron served as an icon for an enemy crusier. The photographs give the viewer an impression that the airplanes are flying but this is an illusion accomplished with the photography by Carl Heideken. The printed pages are tear sheets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The drawings were preparatory for a garden sculpture in Stonypath as documented in the photograph. One drawing depicts the Panzer Leader, a turtle with the title inscribed on its shell, head on, and the other, two drawings with top and side projections -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.