Agh, Agh, Yah, Boo
David Wheatley: Ian Hamilton Finlay, 4 December 2014
Midway: Letters from Ian Hamilton Finlay to Stephen Bann, 1964-69
edited by Stephen Bann.
Wilmington Square, 426 pp., £25, May 2014,978 1 905524 34 1 Show More
edited by Stephen Bann.
Wilmington Square, 426 pp., £25, May 2014,
“... I really feel utterly sickened.’ A few years before, in 1963, Finlay had been insisting to Pierre Garnier that ‘“concrete” by its very limitations offers a tangible image of goodness and sanity; it is very far from the now fashionable poetry of anguish and self.’ Perhaps his gladiatorial side was designed to prove his theory by burning off all ... ”