Art Monthly, May 1st, 2006
Ian Hamilton Finlay, the poet, publisher, sculptor and gardener died on March 27. He attended Glasgow College of Art before being called up for war service, after the war he worked as a shepherd on the Orkneys where he dreamed of a 'visionary happiness in discoursing with classically clad philosophers in a kind of bright green-grassed grove'. It was at this time that he first started to write seriously--short stories for the Glasgow Herald in the main --although his first book of poetry was not published until 1960. Though it was highly regarded by American poets, such as Robert Creeley and Ro...
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