For me concrete poetry was ... by Ian Hamilton Finlay, a Scottish Poet

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“For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.”

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Ian Hamilton Finlay

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Name: Ian Hamilton Finlay

Nationality: Scottish

Date of Birth: Oct 28, 1925

Profession: Poet

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For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.

Ian Hamilton Finlay

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I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.

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I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one.

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I came to these mediums through having the garden, and of course, people who have designed gardens have always worked in collaboration, and never made their own inscriptions.

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What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever.

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