Dreams of Weeds (Ian Hamilton Finlay)

Ian Hamilton Finlay, edited by Ken Cockburn

THE DANCERS INHERIT THE PARTY. Early stories, plays and poems

Times Literary Supplement, April 29, 2005, p. 26.

In the decade before he became known as a concrete poet, a sculptor, a maker of verbal-visual objects, and the creator of the literally fantastic “garden” in Dunsyre in Lanarkshire known as Little Sparta, Ian Hamilton Finlay […]

Afterimages: Revolution of the (Visible) Word

published in Experimental, Visual, Concrete: Avant-Garde Poetry since the 1960s, ed. K. David Jackson, Eric Vos, & Johanna Drucker (Amsterdam-Atlanta: Rodopi, 1996), pp. 335-344 and Symphoposium, passim.

In 1965, Ian Hamilton Finlay wrote to Ernst Jandl, “I am not considered to be a poet here . . . mostly, Scotch poets . . .  like to think they are thinkers, full of very serious […]