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Product Description: This volume surveys the life and work of the Scottish poet Ian Hamilton Finlay, who is best known for his extraordinary garden, Little Sparta, a unique "poem of place" in which poetry, sculpture, and horticulture intersect. This book directs sustained attention to Finlay the verbal artist, revealing the full breadth and richness of his poetics...read more
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9780520270596 | Univ of California Pr, April 2, 2012, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: This volume surveys the life and work of the Scottish poet Ian Hamilton Finlay, who is best known for his extraordinary garden, Little Sparta, a unique "poem of place" in which poetry, sculpture, and horticulture intersect.

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Product Description: This volume surveys the life and work of the Scottish poet Ian Hamilton Finlay, who is best known for his extraordinary garden, Little Sparta, a unique "poem of place" in which poetry, sculpture, and horticulture intersect. This book directs sustained attention to Finlay the verbal artist, revealing the full breadth and richness of his poetics...read more
By Alec Finlay (editor)
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9780520270589 | Univ of California Pr, April 2, 2012, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: This volume surveys the life and work of the Scottish poet Ian Hamilton Finlay, who is best known for his extraordinary garden, Little Sparta, a unique "poem of place" in which poetry, sculpture, and horticulture intersect.

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A nest box is a functional and familiar object and opened out, its form suggests the schematic figure of a bird. This title draws on an exhibition of participative public sculpture that creates a series of colourful colonies composed of nest boxes. It acts as a reflection on dwelling and diaspora.
By Alec Finlay, Alexander Maris, Andrew Morley (other contributor) and Iain Pate
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9781846311338 | Liverpool Univ Pr, May 15, 2008, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A nest box is a functional and familiar object and opened out, its form suggests the schematic figure of a bird.

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Product Description: Presents a shamanic performance by Marcus Coates after a traditional Siberian Yakut ritual to the residents of Sheil Park, Liverpool, in January 2003.
By Alec Finlay (editor)
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9780954683160 | Pap/dvd edition (Platform Projects, January 1, 2007), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Presents a shamanic performance by Marcus Coates after a traditional Siberian Yakut ritual to the residents of Sheil Park, Liverpool, in January 2003.

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By Alec Finlay (other contributor)
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9780955202704 | Platform Projects, January 1, 2007, cover price $15.00

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9781904772163 | Black Dog Pub Ltd, February 16, 2006, cover price $29.95

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By Alec Finlay (compiler)
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9780847827114 | Rizzoli Intl Pubns, July 12, 2005, cover price $16.95

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9780954683146 | Platform Projects, January 1, 2005, cover price $20.00

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Product Description: Poetry. THE BOOK OF QUESTIONS collects questions asked by children aged 3-5 years, as compiled by Alec Finlay. The book is made in part by Creative Partnerships which works to give school children throughout England the opportunity to develop their potential, their ambition, their creativity and imagination through sustainable partnerships with creative and cultural organizations, businesses and individuals...read more
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9780954683139 | Morning Star Editions, January 1, 2005, cover price $18.50 | About this edition: Poetry.

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Product Description: Poetry. TURNING TOWARD LIVING is a collection of circle poems written by Alec Finlay and other contributors. Alec Finlay is an artist and a poet, recently artist in residence at THE BALTIC (Gateshead). His press Morning Star (1990 -2003) has published more than 50 titles...read more
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9780954683115 | Morning Star Editions, January 1, 2005, cover price $18.50 | About this edition: Poetry.

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Product Description: Poetry. Multimedia. "MESOSTIC HERBARIUM is an album of phytological and mycological poems collected from people in many countries...the mesostic is guided by certain rules: choose a plant, its name gives a stem; compose a poem, one word per line...read more
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9780954683122 | Morning Star Editions, January 1, 2005, cover price $18.50 | About this edition: Poetry.

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Product Description: A new artist book by Scottish artist Alec Finlay. Danced by Andy Howitt. Photographed by Robin Gillanders. Labanotation is a wonderful idea: take the greatest World Cup ever goal & transform it into dance. Labanotation records the notation of the goal, and three versions of the dance, performed by leading Scottish contemporary dance star Andy Howitt - in the a studio, on stage at at Sadler's Wells with a posse of schol kids, and at a Premiership League derby game...read more
By Alec Finlay (editor) and Robin Gillanders (editor)
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9780748663255 | Polygon, January 1, 2004, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: A new artist book by Scottish artist Alec Finlay.

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Product Description: This anthology investigates all aspects of counter culture in Scotland, tracing a timeline of seismic events, ideas and art-actions that were retranslated by each successive generation. The anthology has a running commentary -peering into the strata of four decades, picking through the archaeological remains, accompanied by newly commissioned letters from Edwin Morgan, Helen Douglas, Stephen Willats, Malcolm Dickinson and Craig Richardson...read more
By Ross Birrell (editor), Alec Finlay (editor) and Steve Robb (contributor)
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9780748663088 | Polygon, November 1, 2003, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: This anthology investigates all aspects of counter culture in Scotland, tracing a timeline of seismic events, ideas and art-actions that were retranslated by each successive generation.

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9781904477037 | Morning Star Pr, January 1, 2003, cover price $24.85

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9780748663095 | Min pap/co edition (Polygon, January 1, 2003), cover price $14.50

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Product Description: Poetry Reference. The classical Japanese art of renga is a thousand-year-old form of communal poetry, in which poets compose a chain of linked verses. This beginners guide to sharing haiku and renga contains all that you will need to organize your own event: guidelines for composing renga of varying degrees of difficulty, from a simple version that takes an hour, to a 36-verse renga that requires a day; and examples of contemporary renga...read more
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9781904477013 | Morning Star Pubns, January 1, 2003, cover price $24.85 | About this edition: Poetry Reference.

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Product Description: "The Libraries of Thought and Imagination" celebrates books, libraries and bibliophilia. It includes an anthology of "Bookshelves" for which artists and writers were invited to select and write about a bookshelf. Their commentaries establish connections between the different books...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Alec Finlay (editor)
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9780748663002 | Polygon, October 1, 2002, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: "The Libraries of Thought and Imagination" celebrates books, libraries and bibliophilia.

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Product Description: Pocketbooks is a collaborative publishing programme uniting galleries, publishers, artists, writers, poets and more from around the world in a series of small books. The eighth volume in the Pocketbooks series is an evocative anthology of writings about the Scottish mountains...read more
By Alec Finlay (editor) and David Peterson (photographer)
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9780748662890 | Polygon, September 1, 2001, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Pocketbooks is a collaborative publishing programme uniting galleries, publishers, artists, writers, poets and more from around the world in a series of small books.

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By Ken Cockburn (editor) and Alec Finlay (editor)
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9780748662906 | Min pap/co edition (Polygon, September 1, 2001), cover price $11.95

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Product Description: Poetry. WISH I WAS HERE represents the diversity of languages, dialects, and cultures in contemporary Scotland. Edited by Kevin MacNeil and Alec Finlay, it includes new, up-and-coming and established poets from, amongst others, Gaelic, Asian-Scots, African and Shetlandic backgrounds...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Alec Finlay (editor) and Kevin Macneil (editor)
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9780748662814 | Min pap/co edition (Polygon, January 1, 2001), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Poetry.

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Product Description: "Atoms of Delight" is an anthology of Scottish haiku and other short poetic forms, including epigrams, proverbs, couplets, "spaces," one-line poems and one-word poems. The poets include established names such as Alan Spence, Kathleen Jamie, Edwin Morgan, Kevin MacNeil, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Sheena Blackhall, Bruce Leeming and Iain Crichton Smith...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Alec Finlay (editor)
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9780748662753 | Polygon, January 1, 2001, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: "Atoms of Delight" is an anthology of Scottish haiku and other short poetic forms, including epigrams, proverbs, couplets, "spaces," one-line poems and one-word poems.

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Product Description: The term "without day" refers to the "adjournment" of the final sitting of the Scottish Parliament in 1707 to some future but unspecified date, "sine die" - (without day). "Without Day" was an open competition, with information circulated across Scotland and internationally, inviting proposals for artworks, performances and other interventions relating to the new Scottish parliament...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By John Burnside (editor) and Alec Finlay (editor)
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9780748662777 | Pap/com edition (Polygon, January 1, 2001), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: The term "without day" refers to the "adjournment" of the final sitting of the Scottish Parliament in 1707 to some future but unspecified date, "sine die" - (without day).

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Product Description: This anthology was compiled by asking fifty poets to select their favorite love poem and write a poem of their own in response. The contributors, writing in English, Gaelic and Scots, include Andrew Greig, Meg Bateman, Stewart Conn, Valerie Gilles, Robin Robertson, Robert Crawford, Kate Clanchy, and Rody Gorman...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By John Burnside (editor) and Alec Finlay (editor)
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9780748662760 | Polygon, January 1, 2001, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: This anthology was compiled by asking fifty poets to select their favorite love poem and write a poem of their own in response.

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Product Description: Ian Hamilton Finlay (b. 1925) is a unique figure - writer, poet, artist, gardener, thinker, revolutionary whose work ranges from lyrical beauty to an insistent confrontation of violence. Wood Notes Wild is the first collection of essays to consider his work as a whole, from his early poetry and Concrete poetry, to the creation of the acclaimed garden at Little Sparta, and the international recognition he has received as an artist...read more
By Alec Finlay (editor)
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9780748661855 | Polygon, February 1, 1997, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Ian Hamilton Finlay (b.

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