Hello I have not got this email from the works from Gerald. Am not getting
all the mail again it seems. Don't know why. Best wishes Sally J
>From: Bob Cooper <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Sad News - Ian Hamilton Finlay
>Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 08:19:31 +0000
>
>Hi Gerald,
>Thanks for this! Little Sparta...
>I've browsed a few of the (many) sites that appeared on Google... An
>interesting guy - but perhaps not the kind of poet I'd really like to sink
>a few bevvies with. And anything to do with Sparta, or being Spartan, seems
>too tough for me these days. He seems too powerful, very forceful, and
>unpredictable to me (and I'm not too sure what we'd have in common, if
>anything!).
>Bob
>
>
>>From: Gerald England <[log in to unmask]>
>>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Re: Sad News - Ian Hamilton Finlay
>>Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 07:24:54 -0800
>>
>>--- Bob Cooper <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>
>> All I can remember is
>> > hearing some comment
>> > something like, "If you want to read his poems you
>> > really should also see
>> > his garden!" or something like that! Which I think
>> > was a way of saying he
>> > didn't present poems in the conventional or usual or
>> > expected ways. But why
>> > mention is garden of all places????
>>
>>IHF moved to Stonypath in Lanarkshire in 1966. There
>>he turned some abandoned and neglected ground into a
>>sculpture park he called Little Sparta.
>>This was his famous "garden" with which he was always
>>associated -- more so than his poetry.
>>
>>Just type "Stonypath" into a search engine and you'll
>>find more information than you probably need or want.
>>
>>yours
>>Gerald
>>
>>Gerald England
>>New Hope International, Haiku Talk
>>poetry, reviews, travel photography and more
>>http://www.geraldengland.co.uk
>>
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