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This is the fourth publication of Finlay's press. Linocuts, consisting of abstract images, scattered throughout the book adjacent to the poems were done by Alexander McNeish. The themes of the poems mainly relate to Turnbull's travels in Canada and America. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Gael Turnbull (7 April 1928 - 2 July 2004) was a Scottish poet who was an important precursor of the British Poetry Revival. Turnbull was born in Edinburgh and grew up in the North of England and in Canada. He studied Natural Science at Cambridge University and graduated in Medicine from the University of Pennsylvania in 1951. In 1957, Turnbull started Migrant Press, one of the first British-run presses to focus on poets in the modernist tradition. His work was featured in the groundbreaking Revival anthology Children of Albion: Poetry of the Underground in Britain (1969). His own books include A Gathering of Poems 1950-1980 (1983) and Rattle of Scree: Poems (1997). He was also published in the anthologies The New British Poetry (1988), Other: British and Irish Poetry since 1970 (1999) and Anthology of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry (2001). He returned to Edinburgh in the early 1990s. In this city, he worked on what he termed kinetic poems; texts for installation in...

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The title on the cover of this second edition is printed in black ink. Papercut illustrations were made by John Picking and Pete McGinn. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The title on the cover of this edition is printed in black ink. Papercut illustrations were made by John Picking and Pete McGinn. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Contains a holographic translation from the Glasgow dialect, written with pencil by Finlay, on pages facing the printed text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The cover of this edition is printed in red and black with a totally different style than the earlier issues. Papercuts were made by John Picking and Pete McGinn. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the first edition with its title printed in blue ink. Papercut illustrations were made by John Picking and Pete McGinn. The text of the poem is composed with a Glasgow dialect. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book was published on the occasion of a traveling exhibition on the theme of boats and voyages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Ian Hamilton Finlay contributed a conventional poem entitled "Orkney Interior." Michel Butor wrote an essay on Baudelaire. An excerpt from "Kadish" by Allen Ginsberg is printed in this issue. Charles Olson contributed a poem with concrete poetic elements, Edwin Morgan wrote an essay on "Jean Genet: A Life and its Legend." "Naked Lunch" by William Burroughs was reviewed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the 3rd edition of the book even though it was purported to be a 1st edition by the publisher who was supported in part by the British Arts Council. This attribution led to a lengthy legal battle between Finlay & Fulcrum Press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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According to Alec Finlay, this book included all the poems Finlay wanted reprinted as of 1996. It reprinted 46 of the 48 poems in The Dancers Inherit the Party, the Scottish poem entitled, Glasgow Beasts, that was illustrated with papercuts by John Picking and Pete McGinn, and Orkney Lyrics illustrated by John Arran. Robert Creeley contributed a brief foreward and Alec Finlay a long afterward that provides historic information about Finlay's early poetic years. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The word, "new" in ink has been added to the last line of the poem on page 33, which does not appear in the other copy held by the Sackner Archive. The print and cover design were made by Zeljko Kujundzic. This copy was owned by Edwin Morgan, a well-known Scottish poet. The book was subsequently published by Fulcrum Press in 1969 and advertised as a 1st edition, a fact disputed by Finlay that led to a lengthy legal battle between him and the British Arts Council who sponsored Fulcrum Press.This pamphlet was advertised in Migrant No.8, 1960 for $0.25. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book a performance poem about the French revolution by Ian Hamilton Finlay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poems in this book deal with old sailing boat events. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.