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The labels are printed poems in varied typefaces and colors that are referenced to the titles written on each page. The handwritten titles appear to be done by different people but their origins are not identified. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book depicts poems formed by striking out lines from a printed text, one to each page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is an illustrated catalogue of prints and books produced by the October Foundation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book was Finlay's contribution to Junge Kunst Internationale '99 sponsored by Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Luibek, Germany. Each page has three templates for the cards along one to three initials signifying where each card is to be placed based upon the call letters of the boat identified on the card. The cards consist of actual boat names of flowers and their descriptions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book was published on the occasion of a traveling exhibition on the theme of boats and voyages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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All poems which were written by school children are printed in white on black colored pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Kenny Goldsmith provided a punctuation poem on the inside back cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The introductory section of the book consists of three pages of aphorisms dealing with gardening by Ian Hamilton Finlay. This is followed by 29 black and white photographs of Little Sparta by Gillanders. Then Alec Finlay writes a brief essay on the garden and its visual challenge to photography. Gillanders who photographed the garden for this book conducts an interview about the project with Ian Hamilton Finlay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Harriet Staff reviewed the book in Poetry News November 28, 2012: Ian Hamilton Finlay's new book, Selections (UC Press 2012), edited with an introduction by Alec Finlay, has been reviewed over at Booktryst. Alastair Johnston writes of Finlay's later-life recognition, noting that "[a]mong the most fatal accolades one can achieve is to be called "greatest living' anything." What follows is his poetic work in biographical context, down to the garden art (the post also includes great photos of Finlay's early books and ephemera; and links to other concrete poets and related resources): This new book compacts much of his writing into one volume. His early poems are mostly negligible, but the odd memorable line occurs ("The dancers inherit the party"-- also the title of his first book of poems). Glasgow Beasts is a charming series of childlike verses written in broad Gleskae dialect. (Finlay's early battles with the dole come off like an episode of Rab C Nesbit.)In 1963, Finlay began to...

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The child-like illustrations reproduced in this booklet are by Finlay's son. Although the title of this booklet, "The Axis," appears on the title page as such, the cover is printed with the title, "The Uris." From the Archive for this work that is held by the Sackners, it appears that only about 30 copies were distributed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The child-like illustrations reproduced in this booklet are by Finlay's son. Although the title of this booklet, "The Axis," appears on the title page as such, the cover is printed with "The Uris." From the Archive for this work that is held by the Sackners, it appears that only about 30 copies were distributed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This anthology includes the works of a number of Scottish concrete poets who have not appeared in international anthologies in this field. The book also includes a section of commentaries on concrete poetry by Finlay, Gomringer, Riddell, Morgan, and Leonard. The final section of the book annotates selected poems. A compact disc in an insert in the rear dust jacket has interviews, poetry readings and sound poetry by various poets.Peter Manson's review: This exciting and compendious anthology collects an unprecedented variety of poems written by Scots from the Renaissance to the present day, though the great bulk of its contents was written in the last 40 years. Its remit is wide but definable: the poems all, in one way or another, place the emphasis on poetry as a pattern made from the various material aspects of language: language as sound, as letters carved or arranged on a page, as words or phrases to be varied or permuted. Historically, it ranges from Renaissance pattern-poems,...

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Ths publication of the book coincided with an exhibition of Finlay's printed works at the Marfa Book Company in Marfa, Texas. It was entitled "Ian Hamilton Finlay: A Selelection of Printed Works." All the works displayed in this exhibition are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The prior published essays in this book, edited by Ian Hamilton Finlay's son, present a comprehensive survey of his father's poetry and art, from 1958 to 1995. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.