Ian Hamilton Finlay Quotes

Ian Hamilton Finlay, CBE was a Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener.

✵ 28. October 1925 – 27. March 2006

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Ian Hamilton Finlay Quotes

“Concrete poetry began for me with the extraordinary sense that the syntax I had been using, the movement of language within me, af a physical level was no longer there. So it had to be replaced with something else with a syntax and movement that would be true of this new feeling.”

Ian Hamilton Finlay

Stephen Bann ed. 'Midway: Letters from Ian Hamilton' Willmington Square Books 2014 (Letter to Pierre Garnier)

Feeling , Sense

“Evening/Sail
EVEN
-ING
WILL
COME”

Ian Hamilton Finlay

Concrete poem Extract:Stephen Scobie 'Stephen Scobie:Introducing Ian Hamilton Finlay ' Scottish Library
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