Ian Hamilton Finlay

Ian Hamilton Finlay, CBE (28 October 1925 – 27 March 2006) was a Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener.

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

Poetry Quotes

 * Evening/Sail EVEN -ING WILL COME
 * Concrete poem Extract:Stephen Scobie 'Stephen Scobie:Introducing Ian Hamilton Finlay ' Scottish Library

Quotes about Finlay

 * An everyman who happened to accomplish the extraordinary.
 * Finlay blended flowers, words, photography, sculpture, and typography into a potluck of avant-garde pieces of art.
 * 'A Different Kind of Poet'Essay-Katsarel,Michigan State University www.msu.edu


 * A devout Classicist in an age of Romanticism.
 * Stephen Scobie, 'Stephen Scobie Introducing Ian Hamilton Finlay' Scottish Poetry Library