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Political poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Elegy for Whimbrel and Petrel: petrol / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Gardner, Ian., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-13340-13641
Scope and Contents

The image in shades of brown-grays, tipped to the inside of the card, depicts a sailing ship with hoists resembling bird beaks. The foreground shows the sea with smudges resembling an oil slick. In the background is a shore line. No birds appear in t perhaps because petrol leaks from an oil tanker have contaminated their feeding environment. Whimbrel and Petrel are sea shore birds which might be rendered extinct because of lack of attention to oil spills - hence the use of "Elegy" in the title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Landscape with Woods and a Pillar Box for the posting of belligerent Letters / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Gardner, Ian., 1980

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Identifier: CC-12061-12285
Scope and Contents

Depicts a landscape with a military pillar box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Taschenbuch der Panzer / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Gardner, Ian., 1981

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Identifier: CC-11758-11976
Scope and Contents

The eight colored prints play off the image of the Pansey, the flower as a camouflaged image of Panzer, the German armored tank. A section of this book is entitled, "Detached Sentances on Camouflage: In the Manner of Shenstone. William Snenstone (1714-1763) was a poet and gardner. This list aphorisms about floral and military tank camouflage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981