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Picture poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1804 Collections and/or Records:

A Conceptual Cut-Up / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-35448-37184
Scope and Contents

The image on the cover of the card depicts a camouflaged line drawing of a warship. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

A Country Lane with Stiles / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Clark, Laurie., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-12563-12795
Scope and Contents

Cover designed by Laurie Clark. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

A dream is always the sentiment of a truth that exists no more / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Curwin, Kerstin., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-11074-11289
Scope and Contents

This depicts a photograph by Carwin of a bust of Saint-Just. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

a drift of Alysse / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-35438-37174
Scope and Contents

The card is printed on blue paper stock to symbolize the Atlantic Ocean where the Alyssum, a Flower class corvette was torpedoed in 1942. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

A Folly for Wisdom [from Dante's Inferno] , 1979 - 1980

 Item — Folder 88: [Barcode: 31858072538451]
Identifier: CC-46291-49013

A Formal Pool for Stockwood Park, Luton , 1992

 Item — Folder 62: [Barcode: 31858072537966]
Identifier: CC-12334-12560
Scope and Contents

The inscription around the pool is taken from the "Poem on Nature" by Empedokles, the Presocriatic philosopher. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

A Frailty in 3 Syllables / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Clark TA., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-35432-37167
Scope and Contents

The image on the cover is a line drawing silhouette of a model airplane. The poem reads balsa MIG. The poem was adapted from a poem written by Thomas A. Clark. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

A Gesture Press Re:Print: The Hand &The Split Second / Power, Nicholas., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-30390-31806
Scope and Contents

This was the eighth publication of the press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

A Great Blankness That Inspires Awe / Zelevansky, Paul., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-37968-39850
Scope and Contents

Each page contains a word or phrase that is referentially illustrated at the page center and defined at the page bottom with a tangentially related text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

A Hair of the Dog That Bit You / de Charmoy, Cozette., 2003

 Item
Identifier: CC-41415-43400
Scope and Contents

The title is stamped in capital letters on the top of the work and a collaged image of a blue mechanism with the face of a dog-like appearance is on the lower half. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

A Harbour of Roses / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Hincks, Gary., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-11065-11280
Scope and Contents

This book done on Christmas 1993 consists of pictures of a named rose, one to a page, that is also captioned by the Scottish numbers for a boat including the port letters for various harbors. The latter is printed as a key at the end of the book. The significance of these captions with regard to their names and the boat numbers is unclear. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

A Heart-Shape / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Costley, Ron., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-11958-12181
Scope and Contents

This card depicts an off-centered red square with white stiches on an orange background. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

A Js Jn SP A / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-43165-45221
Scope and Contents

The image is an obscure reference to Scottish fishing boats. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

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

 Item
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 Memory of Summer in Trelew Creek, during Mr Thomas Gray's Building of the Habag / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Nicholson, Jim., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-12042-12265
Scope and Contents

The poem deals with a sailing ship, overgrown with weeds, in an abandoned ship yard. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971