This card depicts of a grid of six images abstracted from nature. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

All the cards depicted in this book are held by the Sackner Archive. Futher, about five times more cards by Finlay are held by the Sacknsr Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a b&w photograph from Stonypath garden that depicts a carved stone inscribed "See Poussin Hear Lorrain." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This card consisting of a b&w photograph depicts a carved stone submarine in Stonypath garden. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This booklet is cited in two places because the first author listed is Cutts but it is listed in the Finlay bibliography. Straiks" or "strakes" are stripes of different color from the rest of the surface of which they form a part (OED). The text plays upon variations: streams, streets, streaks, straiks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This booklet is cited in two places because the first author mentioned is Cutts but the booklet is listed in Finlay's bibliography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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.

Quotations from various philosophers are printed on the left hand page and landscape photographs on the right hand page to constitute the two elements on a picture poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The image is a sail boat, seemingly from a newspaper illustration because of the BenDay dots. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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.

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.

According to Alec Finlay, this book included all the poems Finlay wanted reprinted as of 1996. It reprinted 46 of the 48 poems in The Dancers Inherit the Party, the Scottish poem entitled, Glasgow Beasts, that was illustrated with papercuts by John Picking and Pete McGinn, and Orkney Lyrics illustrated by John Arran. Robert Creeley contributed a brief foreward and Alec Finlay a long afterward that provides historic information about Finlay's early poetic years. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The word, "new" in ink has been added to the last line of the poem on page 33, which does not appear in the other copy held by the Sackner Archive. The print and cover design were made by Zeljko Kujundzic. This copy was owned by Edwin Morgan, a well-known Scottish poet. The book was subsequently published by Fulcrum Press in 1969 and advertised as a 1st edition, a fact disputed by Finlay that led to a lengthy legal battle between him and the British Arts Council who sponsored Fulcrum Press.This pamphlet was advertised in Migrant No.8, 1960 for $0.25. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This exhibition of Finlay's works is based upon the painting by Puvis de Chavannes entitled "The Poor Fisherman." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.