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Finlay notes that "Spaces" are poems of two lines and a title, with an unusual space between the lines. This poetic structure was devised by Gael Turnbull. -- 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.

Scope and Contents Gael Turnbull (7 April 1928 - 2 July 2004) was a Scottish poet who was an important precursor of the British Poetry Revival. Turnbull was born in Edinburgh and grew up in the North of England and in Canada. He studied Natural Science at Cambridge University and graduated in Medicine from the University of Pennsylvania in 1951. In 1957, Turnbull started Migrant Press, one of the first British-run presses to focus on poets in the modernist tradition. His work was featured in the groundbreaking Revival anthology Children of Albion: Poetry of the Underground in Britain (1969). His own books include A Gathering of Poems 1950-1980 (1983) and Rattle of Scree: Poems (1997). He was also published in the anthologies The New British Poetry (1988), Other: British and Irish Poetry since 1970 (1999) and Anthology of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry (2001). He returned to Edinburgh in the early 1990s. In this city, he worked on what he termed kinetic poems; texts for installation in...

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This catalogue serves as an annotated bibliography for the Five Seasons Press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Includes large listing of works by Ian Hamilton Finlay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Includes a work in progress by Burroughs, viz., five pages of his cut-up novel, "Soft Machine." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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A word for each day was picked by a random method from Nov.17 to Dec.6, 1963 and 20 poems were composed around the word. Migrant Press, owned by Gael Turnbull, also published Ian Hamilton Finlay's 1960 "The Dancers Inherit the Party." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.