Finlay, Ian Hamilton

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Category Description: Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener; born 1925, died 2006. Best known for the environmental poetry of the garden, Little Sparta, created by Finlay and his wife, Sue Finlay, at Dunsyre in the Pentlands, near Edinburgh.

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Little Sparta Trust - Formed to preserve the garden created by Ian Hamilton Finlay to fuse poetic and sculptural expression; offers a history, guide for visitors, and photos of the garden and his artistic works. Near Biggar, South Lanarkshire.

The Death of Piety - Offers a profile, illustrations, and an interview with the poet/artist for Jacket magazine. [2001].
Ian Hamilton Finlay - An archive of the poet and gardener's work; includes an illustrated profile, and information about his work made available by Wild Hawthorn Press.
Little Sparta - A visitor's photo gallery of his visit to Ian Hamilton Finlay's garden gallery at Stonypath, Dunsyre.
Piety and Impiety: The Little Spartan Wars - An account of the long-running dispute between Strathclyde Council and Ian Hamilton Finlay over the property tax payable on a converted barn in the Little Sparta garden.
Stephen Scobie introducing Ian Hamilton Finlay - A critical overview of Finlay's poetry, for Arc Poetry Magazine.

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