FINLAY, Ian Hamilton
(*1925)
FINLAY, Ian Hamilton (28 October 1925). I wish I liked Finlay’s work more, because he is among the few contemporaries to be honored in the histories of both contemporary poetry and contemporary visual art. He began as a conventional Scottish poet whose first book, The Dancers Inherit the Party (1960), contained traditional rhymed sentiments about people in the Scottish outlands. Within a few years, he had become the principal Scottish participant in international Concrete Poetry, often writing…