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Finlay, Ian Hamilton, 1925-2006

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1925 October 28 - 2006 March 27

Nationality

Scottish

Found in 1989 Collections and/or Records:

Origins of British Experimental Poetry / Cobbing, Bob; Gomringer E; Houedard DS; Finlay IH; Morgan E; deMelo e Castro EM; Garnier P; Chopin H; Novak L; Fahlstrom O; Cox K; Williams J; Edmonds T., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-17671-18039
Scope and Contents

Cobbing discusses the early concrete poems of Ian Hamilton Finlay, John Furnival, Kenelm Cox, Dom Sylvester Houedard, and Tom Edmonds in depth. This essay is unbpubished. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Out-of-Print / Granary Books ; Abrioux Y ; Finlay IH ; Aldan D ; Andrews B ; Bernstein C ; Anthony B ; Antin D ; Artaud A ; Ashbery J ; Giorno J ; Baruchello GF ; Bee S ; Shores M ; Belloli C ; Beltrametti F ; Berman W ; Bing X ; Blackburn P ; Blaine J ; Breton A ; Burroughs WS ; Cage J ; Campbell K ; Clark T ; Cobbing B ; Copley W ; Creeley R ; Crombie J ; Cutts S ; Douglas H ; Stokes T ; Drescher H ; Dreyfus C ; Drucker J ; Elmslie K ; Ely T ; Fahrner B ; Fava V ; Filliou R ; Fine R ; Ford CH ; Frank P ; Hoffberg J ; Freeman B ; Friedman M ; Furnival J ; Gallo P ; Garnier P ; Gibbs M ; Gins M ; Giorno J ; Gomringer E ; Warschauer H ; Gysin B ; Hamady W ; Hansen A ; Harms A ; Unica T ; Hausmann R ; Haynes R ; Helmes S ; Herms G ; Higgins D ; Houedard DS ; Hoyem A ; Jess ; Kaldewey G ; King S ; Knowles A ; Kostelanetz R ; Lax R ; Laxson R ; levy da ; Ligorano N ; Reese H ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK ; MacLow J ; Johnson R ; Mathews H ; McCaffery S ; Nichol bp ; Moeglin-Delcroix A ; Morrow C ; Hanson S ; Mottram E ; Perloff M ; Phillips T ; Greenaway P ; Phillpot C ; Hendricks J ; Porter B ; Smith EK ; Faust D ; Quasha G ; Riha K ; Robson E ; Roth D ; Rothenberg J ; Ruhm G ; Ruscha E ; Saroyan A ; Schneemann C ; Schwitters K ; Sdun D ; Smith K ; Spector B ; Stein G ; Bee S ; Torok K ; Tyson M ; Tzara T ; VanHorn E ; Vostell W ; Welch C ; Williams E ; Williams J ; Wilson M ; Winkfield T ; Young K ; Young L ; Zelevansky P ; Zimmerman P ; Zweig J., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-33976-35648

Out of the Strong Came Forth Sweetness / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Clark, Laurie., 1974

 Item
Identifier: CC-12113-12337
Scope and Contents

This depicts a warship with helicopters hovering about it as a metaphor for bees swarming about honey. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Ovid: The Metamorphses, Book VIII / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Nash, John R.., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-12987-13279
Scope and Contents

Poem was adapted from Ovid's "The Metamorphosis." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Ovidian Flowers / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-35403-37138
Scope and Contents

Finlay writes that early in 1941, the German U-boat successes against American Merchant shipping resulted in a number of Flower Class corvettes being transferred from the Royal Navy to the U.S. Navy. The poem lists the name changes of these ships. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Oystercatchers / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-42857-44898
Scope and Contents

The etching or woodcut black and white image on the card cover by Hincks appears to be a scene taken from Finlay's Little Sparta garden. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Pacific Board Wargame / Ian Hamilton Finlay., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-12558-12790
Scope and Contents

The perforated papercard prints contain reproductions of airplanes and aircraft carriers and stylized cherry blossoms emblematic of Kamikazes, one print in red and the other in black. Instructions for playing the game are provided on the loose sheet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Pacific Board Wargame / Ian Hamilton Finlay., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-12558-12790
Scope and Contents

The perforated papercard prints contain reproductions of airplanes and aircraft carriers and stylized cherry blossoms emblematic of Kamikazes, one print in red and the other in black. Instructions for playing the game are provided on the loose sheet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Pacific; Type A & B - Board Wargame for Two Players / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Michael., 1974 - 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-12787-13071
Scope and Contents

This maquette for the instruction sheet of Pacific in red and black ink was done by Michael Harvey. It was part of the Finlay Archive with the same title also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974 - 1975

Painting by Numbers: A Homage to Christopher Wood / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Sackett C., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-35282-37016
Scope and Contents

Each page consists of the fishing number of a boat at the top, a blank space in the middle and the name of the ship with its port of call at the bottom. The typography was done by Colin Sackett. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Pan Loaf Provincialism / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; MacDiarmid H; Niedecker L; Williams J., 1962

 Item
Identifier: CC-31370-32848
Scope and Contents

This is a polemic against the Glasgow Herald that gave an unfavorable review to Finlay's book, "Glasfow Beasts." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1962

Pan-Pipes / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1998

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Identifier: CC-35466-37202
Scope and Contents

The cover depicts a row of three, musical pan-pipes with the caption, "(torpedo tubes)." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Panzer Am Waldrande / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Nicholson, Jim., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-12019-12242
Scope and Contents

An additional card and correspondence is included in the Archive entitled "Panzers/Pansies." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Paperworks in Print available 1992 / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-37982-39865
Scope and Contents

The list was compiled by Pia Simig. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Parheliacal Marble / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Farthing, Julie., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-11036-11251
Scope and Contents

This work was also rendered as a neon sculpture. Parheliacal means reflection of an image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Paris Is the Sink of All Vices / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-12185-12409
Scope and Contents

This is a quotation from Jean-Paul Marat as an imagined admonishment to Michel Blum and Yves Hayat for their rejection of Finlay's commission for the city of Paris. The poem reads, "Paris is the sink of all vices. And its inhabitants claim they are free! They should not flatter themselves; to be free it is necessary to have judgement, courage, virtues......" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988