Rousay Mending—a Footnote & 8 p/cs comprises the following, the first item further illustrated here. The set will soon be available, price £20, from the Pier Arts Centre, Orkney, and James Fergusson Books and Manuscripts, London.
Rousay Mending: 24 Island Words & Colours (with Selected Brews) for Ian Hamilton Finlay, by Alistair Peebles, is now available to purchase from two sources: the Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney (in person or online) and James Fergusson Books and Manuscripts, London. Rousay Mending is presented in a hinged metal
Such an Air VI The poet John Sharkey's arrival in Rousay was completely unexpected. He had followed Ian from Edinburgh, more or less on a whim. Malnourished, impoverished and sick with the rigours of travel, probably by hitch-hiking, he spent a week or so recovering in hospital
Such an Air (IV) GEORGE SUFFERED too from this shivering thing, and hadn’t believed Ian would make it back here. He’d long been physically sick as well, with TB, but had got away at last, via Newbattle, and Muir, and now the university. Whatever he did later, the
Such an Air (III) WEDNESDAYS IN Kirkwall were half-day closing, and the other week Ernest had asked Ian along to the Cathedral. He was keen to tell him more about the plans already in progress for a plaque to be installed there in Edwin's honour, interred as