Brian LavelleIn celebration of the centenary of Ian Hamilton Finlay’s birth.
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Assoc for Scottish LiteratureThe Boat in the Writing Room
18 Nov, University of Dundee – free
A public screening of a new film exploring the year that Ian Hamilton Finlay & his family spent at Gledfield Farmhouse – a vital transitional stage in his dynamic career
9/9
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War & Pieces of a Garden
30 Oct, Glasgow School of Art – free
Exhibition preview – containing works by Ian Hamilton Finlay held by GSA as well as private loans, including prints & photographs from Finlay’s friends & collaborators
8/9
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Ian Hamilton Finlay made model toys that weren’t to be played with & decreed that certain ‘sacred’ vegetables should never be consumed. This left his young children somewhat confused… For his father’s centenary, Alec Finlay unravels the conundrum
7/9
https://www.worldofinteriors.com/story/ian-hamilton-finlay-stonypath-scotland
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“It is a place rich in that unmistakable combination of the simple & the childlike, with the deep & the sophisticated, a range and reach of ideas & intellect which has no equal”
—Magnus Linklater on Ian Hamilton Finlay’s artwork-garden “Little Sparta”
6/9
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2015/06/little-sparta-the-garden-of-ian-hamilton-finlay/
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“Ian Hamilton Finlay […] feuded joyfully & comically with MacDiarmid, & finally established Little Sparta to celebrate his chronic war against the Athens of the North.”
PDFs of Ian Hamilton Finlay’s magazine poor·old·tired·horse are free online
5/9
https://ubu.com/vp/Poor.Old.Tired.Horse.html
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“No other journal in Scotland can boast e e cummings, Pablo Neruda, Theodore Enslin, Lorine Niedecker, Ernst Jandl and many more as willing contributors.”
—Richie McCaffery on Ian Hamilton Finlay’s poor·old·tired·horse, for the Scottish Magazines Network
4/9
https://campuspress.stir.ac.uk/scotmagsnet/2022/04/07/poor-old-tired-horse/
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When I have talked for an hour I feel lousy –
Not so when I have danced for an hour:
The dancers inherit the party
While the talkers wear themselves out and sit in corners alone and glower.
—Ian Hamilton Finlay, “The Dancers Inherit the Party”
published in NEW DIRECTIONS 20 (1966)
3/9
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Ian Hamilton Finlay’s revolutionary instincts
“This is a centenary for an agoraphobic poet once notorious for maintaining a small militia of supporters who vandalised the office of the Evening Standard’s art critic Brian Sewell; an artist who employed the help of collaborator Jessie McGuffie to ‘defend’ his project by punching the literary editor of the Scotsman in 1962.”
2/9
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/art/70812/ian-hamilton-finlays-revolutionary-instincts
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Poet, writer, artist, & avant-gardener Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006) was born 100 years ago #OTD, 28 Oct, in Nassau, Bahamas – a fact which he would later describe as “ridiculous, not in character at all”. His father was a bootlegger, smuggling rum to the USA, & Finlay was sent, aged 6, to Larchfield, a boarding school in Helensburgh, Scotland, where WH Auden had recently joined the staff
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