Description
Illustrations (including many from Finlay’s landscape proposals):
Ian Appleton, Keith Bailey, Janet Boulton, Chris Broughton (plus Cover, left), Laurie Clark, Ron Costley, Howard Eaglestone, Gary Hincks, Peter Lyle, Jack Sloan, Nicholas Sloan, Mark Stewart, Andrew Townsend, Caroline Webb, Andrew Whittle
Texts:
~ Patrick Eyres. Introduction.
~ Sue Finlay. The Planting of a Hillside Garden (Little Sparta).
~ Alec Finlay. Poems of Sledges, Swimming and Gliders (Little Sparta).
~ Jessie Sheeler. Little Sparta.
~ Patrick Eyres, Denis Barns, Stephen Bann. The Wave Poem, Livingston (1976): Public Sculpture in a Scottish New Town (the texts by Barns and Bann were written in 1976 and are published herein for the first time).
~ Patrick Eyres. Garden, Park and Cityscape: A Checklist of the Permanent Landscape Installations.
~ Patrick Eyres. Collaborations, Proposals and Three English Gardens (Weston, Yorkshire, 1978; Stockwood Park, Luton, 1991; St George’s Bristol, 2002).
~ Yves Abrioux. On a Darkling Plain: Ian Hamilton Finlay’s Monumental Forays into Europe.
~ John Dixon Hunt. Vnda Pacifica: San Diego, U.S.A.
~ Harry Gilonis. Stockwood Park, Luton: Notes on Ian Hamilton Finlay and Landscape Improvement.
~ Stephen Bann. Old Sites, New Gardens: A Prolegomenon to St George’s Bristol.