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Critical essays on Finlay's work and specific poems are provided by Piotr Rypson and Tadeusz Slawek, respectively. The illustrations in this catalogue depict prints and cards of Finlay's work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The image depicts sailing boats with a list of female names. Its subtitle is "Homage to John Betjeman." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The image depicts sailing boats with a list of female names. Its subtitle is "Homage to John Betjeman." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Two excerpts, one from a soldier in Hitler's Youth Division and the second from Peter Pan, compare personal thoughts preceding possible death. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Note that the duplicate copy does not have the inserted broadside. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Note that one of the three copies has price list of publications on a loose sheet. The optical illustrations throughout the pages of this issue are taken from paintings by Jeffrey Steele. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poems were composed by Ian Hamilton Finlay and the drawings were done by Peter Lyle. The pamphlet lists Wild Hawthorne publications (winter '66/'67 list). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The card depicts a watercolor rendition of poppies captioned with "the Phrygian Flower." Phhrygia refers to an ancient country in central and NW Asia Minor. A Phrygian cap was a soft conical cap associated with the liberty cap in the late 18th and early 19th centuries . Finlay draws attention to poppies as a metaphor for the liberty cap. This card deals with a metaphor for the French revolution. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The print by Ron Costley illustrates the poem Porphyry, "On Abstinence From Animal Food," which has been translated by Thomas Taylor. This print commemorates the philosophy of Porphyry 233-304 whose original name was Malchus who was a Greek Neo-Platonist philosopher, born in Syria; disciple and biographer of Plotinus. He was a proponent of vegetarianism, e.g., "But to deliver animals to be slaughtered and cooked, and thus be filled with murder, not for the sake of nutriment and satisfying the wants of nature, but making pleasure and gluttony the end of such conduct, is transcendently iniquitous and dire. He who abstains from anything animate ... will be much more careful not to injure those of his own species. For he who loves the genus will not hate any species of animals. And is it not absurd, since we see that many of our own species live from sense alone, but do not possess intellect and reason; and since we also see that many of them surpass the most terrible of wild beasts...

Scope and Contents The print by Ron Costley illustrates the poem Porphyry, "On Abstinence From Animal Food," which has been translated by Thomas Taylor. This print commemorates the philosophy of Porphyry 233-304 whose original name was Malchus who was a Greek Neo-Platonist philosopher, born in Syria; disciple and biographer of Plotinus. He was a proponent of vegetarianism, e.g., "But to deliver animals to be slaughtered and cooked, and thus be filled with murder, not for the sake of nutriment and satisfying the wants of nature, but making pleasure and gluttony the end of such conduct, is transcendently iniquitous and dire. He who abstains from anything animate ... will be much more careful not to injure those of his own species. For he who loves the genus will not hate any species of animals. And is it not absurd, since we see that many of our own species live from sense alone, but do not possess intellect and reason; and since we also see that many of them surpass the most terrible of wild beasts...

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Consists of a proof copy of the poem on a loose sheet with handwritten corrections to the poem by Finlay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Consists of the port letters and numbers of Scottish fishing vessels fired in green on a white background. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The image on the cover depicts a sailing ship. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The ink drawings provide construction details of four ceramic varied colored sail shapes with numbers from Scottish sail boats. One drawing is vertical and one drawing is horizontal. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The watercolor depicts four ceramic, varied colored sail shapes with numbers from Scottish sail boats. The signature is Michael Harvey's but he has also printed Susan Goodricke's name adjacent to his. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This depicts two adjacent, brown colored, ceramic or concrete, vertical slabs lettered The Water's Hours with levels drawn in blue & denoted with Roman numerals and The Sky's Hours with strokes of a sundial drawn in blue & denoted with Roman numerals, respectively. In Oct 1973, Harvey writes to Finlay with descriptions of proposals for the Portsmith City Art Project, viz., Water's & Sky's Hours and Numbered Sails. Finlay replied within a week with minor modifications prior to their submission into the competition. He adds a note of encouragement to Harvey, "So the question is, who will get the Third Prize (As we have won the First and Second)." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This manifesto on the "New Poetry" was drawn up by an international group of poets who are listed as contributors. Other poets working in this field are cited in the contributor field. According to this document, the new poetry can be classified as concrete poetry, phonetic poetry, objective poetry, visual poetry, and sound poetry, Othe related poetries include cybernetic poetry, serial poetry, permutations, word sounds, etc. The major periodicals publishing new poetry are as follows: 1) Germany: Rot, Texturen; 2) England: Poor Old Tired Horse; 3) Belgium: De Tafelronde; 4) Brazil: Invencao, Praxis; 5) France: Cinqueme Saison, Les Lettres; 6) Holland: Kentering; 7) Japan: Vou; 8) Switzerland: Konkrete Poesie; 9) Austria: Manuskripte. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The prints are inserted in the folds of the dust jacket. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.