The Gardener at Sea and Other Tales

His next book, The Dancers Inherit the Party , consisted of short, often homely poems:. When I have talked for an hour I feel lousy — Not so when I have danced for an hour: The dancers inherit the party While the talkers wear themselves out and sit in corners alone, and glower. When Fulcrum Press, then the leading publisher of avant garde poetry in Britain, went to reprint a revised version in , Finlay took legal action against them for the presumption of calling it a "first edition", and attempted to have the book withdrawn from sale.

This was an early assault in his ongoing culture wars.

The Gardener at Sea and Other Tales Bob Battersby Xlibris Corporation

In an attempt to mollify him, the SAC arranged to host an exhibition in at the council's Charlotte Square headquarters. As invitees gathered on the steps for the official opening, word came through that Finlay had cancelled the show. Some observers regarded these manoeuvres as mischievous and exasperating.

As a result, Finlay's status in Scotland from the s onwards was vague. The artist's best-known military exploit occurred at Stonypath itself in Strathclyde Regional Council had informed Finlay that because he was using the barn on his property as an art gallery, he would be liable to pay higher rates. Finlay disputed the categorisation, and refused. It was a temple, he said — from now on temples would need chaperoning by battleships — and his garden was a "religious place".

When the sheriff officer and a platoon of bailiffs arrived, Finlay and his Saint-Just Vigilantes — a band of loyal, not to say fanatical, supporters — fought them off with specially constructed panzer tanks letting off explosions. As the enemy beat a retreat, it found itself trapped. Stonypath became known as Little Sparta: Sparta being the traditional enemy of Athens, and Edinburgh the Athens of the North. A bronze plaque at the entrance depicts a machine gun, similar to the one on display at the Tate, with a visually punning flute-holed barrel. Under Stonypath's piping weapon is a line from Virgil, which could have been taken as a motto for the Duveen Galleries show: A sampling of Finlay's concrete poetry is exhibited, together with several publications of the Wild Hawthorn Press, which he set up to issue poem-cards, lithographs, booklets and decorative tiles, examples of all of which are on display.

The Tate describes him as "Britain's foremost concrete poet", which is unfair to the late Edwin Morgan , who introduced Finlay to concrete poetry, and whose own work is more wide-ranging in private, Finlay was disparaging of Morgan's concrete efforts, calling them "not serious".

The Gardener at Sea and Other Tales Bob Battersby Xlibris Corporation

Here we see the poster poem "Le Circus" , which is about many things but not a circus in the expected sense. K47 refers to the number of an Orkney fishing boat — a smack — which is compared to a pony leaping through a hoop, as the boat passes under and above the curve of a rainbow and its reflection on the sea's surface. The green and red blinkers are port and starboard lights. One of the many commanding monumental sculptures at Stonypath is a set of 11 irregularly cut stones made by Nicholas Sloan , with a single word incised on each: Or to put it in domesticated form, today's nicely trimmed garden is tomorrow's overgrown tangle.

The Tate has a similar exhibit, also bearing the words of Saint-Just, which is allowed to dominate the entire southern end of the Duveen Galleries: It was not a form of occupation, as some might have previously thought or still thinks. For this reason, this book humbly tries to explain the nature of the existing relationship between Washington and the Sunni sect in Bahrain.

It would be very difficult to understand it in isolation of what is going on in the Middle East, notably the Gulf region. The book, America and the Bahrain Winter, is a serious attempt to understand the crisis that hit Bahrain in and caused it to grapple with its repercussions for many months, not knowing whether and when it will come to an end. This crisis is not a usual one; it is complex and with a set of intertwined local, regional, and international factors.

It is a perfect example where theories such as the domino and butterfly approaches should be applied to analyze the relations within the Bahraini political system and those in the neighboring countries. The book covers the period from February to September But it also covers the earlier decades to facilitate deeper analysis. We will send you an SMS containing a verification code. The two are thence conveyed to the 'Valley of K' by courier 'Mr. Butt', to speak for 'Snooty Buttoo', another politician.

Attempting to sleep aboard Buttoo's yacht , Haroun discovers 'Iff the Water Genie', assigned to detach Rashid's imagination, and demands conversation against this decision with Iff's supervisor, the Walrus. They are then carried to the eponymous 'Sea of Stories' by an artificial intelligence in the form of a hoopoe , nicknamed 'Butt' after the courier. Of the Sea of Stories, Haroun learns it is endangered by antagonist 'Khattam-Shud,' who represents "the end. Rashid joins them here, having witnessed Batcheat's kidnapping. Thereafter Haroun and his companions join the Guppee army of 'Pages' toward Chup, where they befriend Mudra, Khattam-Shud's former second-in-command.

Before he can do so, Mali destroys the machines used by him to poison the Sea, and Haroun restores the Sea's long-annulled alternation of night and day——— thus destroying the antagonist's shadow and those assisting him, and diverting the giant 'Plug' meant to seal the Source. In Chup, the Guppee army destroy the Chupwalas' army and release Princess Batcheat; whereupon Khattam-Shud himself is crushed beneath a collapsing statue commissioned by himself.

Thereafter the Walrus promises Haroun a happy ending of his own story. On return to the human world, Rashid reveals Haroun's adventures to local citizens, who expel Snooty Buttoo. When Rashid and Haroun return home, the people of their city have become joyous to replace their customary misery, and Soraya has returned to her son and husband. The novel concludes with an appendix explaining the meaning of each major character's name.

A young, curious, courageous, outspoken child.

He struggles throughout most of the story with a form of attention-deficit disorder caused by his mother running away with Mr. Sengupta at exactly eleven o'clock, and under its influence he is unable to concentrate for a longer period of time not more than eleven minutes. But he eventually overcomes his disorder at the climax, never to suffer from it again. He and his father are both named after the "legendary Caliph of Baghdad, Haroun al-Rashid, who features in many Arabian Nights tales. Their surname Khalifa actually means Caliph" [4].

Haroun's father, known as the Shah of Blah and the Ocean of Notions for his ability to devise stories impromptu, Rashid is a professional storyteller sometimes hired by corrupt politicians to persuade constituents in their favour.

His attachment to his wife and to his practice of storytelling, is probably his greatest psychological weaknesses; when either of them is lost, he becomes depressed and tends to lose the other. In the story, to recover the latter, he travels to Kahani by means known as 'Rapture', through which he is able to travel inside his dreams and wake up in the world, his dream has created.

Having reached Kahani, he alerts the Guppees about the location of their Princess Batcheat and later joins their army to rescue her from the Chupwalas. Rashid's wife, who is tired of his imagination and leaves him for the dull and dreary Mr. That she is becoming alienated from Rashid is implied early in the story, where she is said to have abandoned her daily songs.

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At the end, she returns to Rashid, and revives her affection for her husband and son. Upon her return, the depression overwhelming Rashid and the syndrome manifested by Haroun do not reappear.

Ian Hamilton Finlay: the concrete poet as avant gardener

Her name is probably Persian in origin. Haroun's neighbour, who elopes with Soraya. As a rule, Mr. Sengupta despises imagination and stories, which sets the stage for his later appearance on Kahani as antagonist Khattam-Shud. Khattam-Shud's defeat seems to correspond with Soraya's desertion of Mr.

Sengupta, who does not appear again in person. His name is a legitimate Bengali surname. Sengupta's obese, talkative, self-important, overwhelmingly emotional, generous wife, disappointed in her husband after he has eloped with Soraya. In her dismay, she disowns him and her married name. It is she who reveals that Soraya has deserted her family and that her act has given Haroun his disorder, and also announces her return. The mail courier, a reckless driver who, when requested to provide transport for Haroun and Rashid who is expected to speak at an election of public officers , ignores all other demands to take them to their destination before dusk.

He is implied equivalent of the Hoopoe, who also serves as Haroun's transportation. A corrupt politician who hires Rashid to convince constituents that he Buttoo should be re-elected. Buttoo is a class-conscious, pompous, arrogant, self-assured person whose chief hold over his constituents is that he has been re-elected before. Ultimately driven from his district by popular demand. A mechanical Hoopoe who becomes Haroun's steed in Kahani, capable of almost all known mental feats, including telepathy the latter producing a recurrent joke that he "spoke without moving [his] beak". He is also capable of flying at impossible speeds, between Earth and Kahani.

Because he shares with Mr. Butt the idiosyncrasy of saying "but but but" at the beginning of sentences, in addition to some superficial details of appearance, he is called by the same name.