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I an Hamilton Finlay — was a poet, writer, visual artist and gardener. He is now internationa lly recognised for his work in each of these art forms. Finlay was born in Nassau, the Bahamas, in Finlay himself had been sent to Scotland at the age of six, boarding first at Larchfield School near Helensburgh, then Dollar Academy.

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He spent the years —45 between Glasgow, where he attended, or failed to attend, art school and befriended W. Undertaking national service with the Non-Combatant and Service Corps between and , he travelled to post-Nazi Germany. He was adopted as an accolyte by Hugh MacDiarmid, who would be best man at his wedding in , before they accrimoniously fell out in the early s.

He spent the next eight years as an impoverished writer and painter, periodically publishing short stories in the Glasgow Herald and the Scottish Angler — his stories were often about fishing — while earning money from shepherding and labouring. He briefly lived on Rousay, one of the Orkney Islands, during the winter of ; this location became a source of inspiration for the symbolic landscapes depicted in much of his later work.

From onwards Finlay was largely based in Edinburgh, though he travelled to Rousay again in Spring In spring , Finlay set up the Wild Hawthorn Press with his partner Jessie McGuffie, partly to publish the work of undervalued and international poets. The following spring , he launched the periodical Poor.