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Conventional poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 130 Collections and/or Records:

A Dryad Discovered / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Jones, Grahame., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-12078-12302
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1983

A Fragment / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1988

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Identifier: CC-13001-13293
Scope and Contents

This was Finlay's Christmas card for 1988. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

A Harbour of Boat Books Cards and Prints / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1993 - 1994

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Identifier: CC-11119-11334
Scope and Contents

Includes the prices of the works on exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993 - 1994

A Mast of Hankies / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Paterson, Dave., 1975

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Identifier: CC-12804-13091
Scope and Contents

The conventional poems by Finlay dealing with toy sailing ships are accompanied by photographs of ships taken by Dave Paterson. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

A Mixed Exhibition / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1983

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Identifier: CC-12855-13144
Scope and Contents

Printed by Crispen and Jan Elsted. The exhibition consists of the 11 cards with varied colored and size paper. The printing has been done with different typefaces and colored ink. The theme relates to verbal translations of classical paintings by artists who lived in the 17th and 18th centuries. One booklet lists the content of the cards that constitutes the exhibition; the other, denoted Reflections, notes by Finlay and asides by Crispen Elsted. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

A Sail in Plato / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1995

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Identifier: CC-12944-13236
Scope and Contents

This is an adaptation of a quote from a "Parmenides Dialog." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

After / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Jones, Grahame., 1989

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Identifier: CC-11850-12071
Scope and Contents

Printed by John Tetley. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Apples / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1995

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Identifier: CC-12976-13268
Scope and Contents

The poem describes Finlay's impression of a Pissaro landscape painting involving apple trees. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Arbre (Tree) / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1979

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Identifier: CC-12059-12283
Scope and Contents

Poem lists words related to the image of a tree. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Archive for A Mast of Hankies / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Paterson, Dave., 1974

 Item
Identifier: CC-12805-13092
Scope and Contents

These items constitute the working materials for the poem collection, "A Mastful of Hankies." The manuscripts consist of conventionally composed poems, not all of which were used in the final version of the work. Maquettes for the folder and cards and directions for color stock of paper are included. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Archive for Correspondence between Ian Hamilton Finlay and U. Grant Roman / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; ; Roman, Grant U.; Finlay S., 1964

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Identifier: CC-61241-10003928
Scope and Contents Summary: 1)Description of U. Grant Roman - Ian Hamilton Finlay Archive. Chicago, Illinois 1983, manuscript; pages (ink, handwriting). 2). Letter to U. Grant Roman sending copies of P.O.T.H.. c.1963. letter (ink, handwriting), 3). Letter to U. Grant Roman thanking him for purchasing Poor Old Tired Horse and instruction for assembling Standing Poem. Dunsyre Lanark, Scotland c.1963, letter (typed), 4) Letter to U. Grant Roman discussing future of poems on glass panels. c.1963. letter (typed), 5) Letter to U. Grant Roman discussing loss of Cardboard Toy Poem and Proposal To Destroy All Copies of Canal Funnel Save One. Dunsyre Lanark, Scotland 1964. letter (ink, handwriting), 6.). Letter to U. Grant Roman Discussing Destruction of Canal Funnel and Mentions Publication of Concrete Poetry. Dunsyre Lanark, Scotland 1964 letter (typed, ink, handwriting 2p), 7) Letter to U. Grant Roman Listing Works Sent Including One Copy of Canal Funnel Lanark, Scotland 1964. letter (typed), 8) Letter to...
Dates: 1964

Autumn / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1991

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Identifier: CC-11107-11322
Scope and Contents

The poem reads, The woods - milestones, The mountains - signposts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Blackbird Dust: Essays, Poems and Photographs / Williams, John ; Duncan R ; Oppenheimer J ; Johnson R ; Olson C ; Patchen K ; Creeley R ; Finlay IH ; Meyer T ; Bunting B ; Hamilton AS ; Dickey J ; Gardner I ; Hawkins S ; Anthony B ; DuPlessix F ; Rexroth K., 2000

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Identifier: CC-38406-40311
Scope and Contents

In this book of previously published brief essays and interviews, Jonathan Williams describes his publishing in Jargon as follows: "Most of the people we've published despise ninety-five percent of the others we've done - that's probably a very healthy thing. Remember, you're dealing with a hillbilly oligarch, a crank. Whether it's poetry of photography or visionary fold-art or persons themselves, I love things that are 'bright-eyed, non-uppity, autochthonous, wacko, private, isolate, unconventional, unpaved, non-commercial, non-nice, naive, outside, fantastic, sub-aesthetic, home-style and bushy-tailed." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Candid Fields; Essays and Reflections on the Work of Thomas A. Clark / Dent, Peter, editor ; Marvell A ; Clark TA ; Freeman Jo ; Cutts S ; Finlay IH ; Green I ; Stacey R., 1987

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Identifier: CC-32391-33962
Scope and Contents

The loose sheet consists of a typed poem by Peter Dent entitled "Seaspray." The book includes critical analysis of Clark's poems by John Freeman, Ian Green, and Robert Stacey. Green provides an analysis of Clark's poem "Out of the Wind" using numerical group theory to explain its structure. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987