The image is a Scottish sailing ship and the caption refers to Joseph Viala or Bara, there is confusion about the names. He was the little drummer boy who during the French Revolution when ordered to call "Vive le Roi" called "Vive la Rupublique and was shot. In 1794 J-L David painted "Death of Viala (Bara?). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Depicts a sail boat with the tip of its mast in juxtaposition with the horizon like sewing the horizon as it sails. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poems are parodies of events or art. For example, in the illustration depicted in this record, Finlay & Hincks modified Gris cubist portrait of the art dealer, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler to a cubist portrait of a pipe-smoking snowman and captioned the work, Daniel-Henry Snowman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The card is shaped like an arrow and has been made from marbled paper, a pun on the poem printed along an inside fold, "The Marble Arrow Always Hits Its Mark!" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The image on this card has been adapted from Basil Greenhill's "Sailing For A Living." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The title has been inscribed on a guillotine blade and underneath it the inscription "Death to the Strathclyde Region" is inscribed on the black background, a reference to Finlay's dispute with the local tax collectors. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The picture poem depicted on this card contrasts the Spanish hat form as the shape of a ship with overflying airplanes to a hat providing protection from overflying insects. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The print features monthly paint schemes of military tanks.

The shape of this poem is a bow and arrow. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is an attack on the National Trust for regarding Finlay's sculptural garden as an architectural folly. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Essay about home in Yorkshire of archivist and Finlay dealer, Greville Worthington. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a reprint of an article on the contemporaneous state of concrete poetry in the UK. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The photograph on this card by Diane Tammes was taken for Finlay's "A Mast of Hankies." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poems in this book deal with old sailing boat events. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Listings on the pages are taken from the names, port registration letters, and code numbers of Olsen's Fisherman Nautical Almanack. The spelling of Olsen with an "e" rather than with an "o" as in the name of the American poet is deliberate. Olson drew much of his poetic material from Boston fisheries. Images in this book on pages facing the listings are photographs of fishing boats. According to Finlay (flyer), this juxtaposition is a "found collage" in the style of Schwitters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The etching or woodcut black and white image on the card cover by Hincks appears to be a scene taken from Finlay's Little Sparta garden. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is an anthology with definitions and examples of topics that include Riddles, Enigmas, Charades, Acrostics, Word Squares, Crosswords, Scrabble, Anagrams, Rebuses, Chronograms, Palindromes, Panagrams, Lipograms, Letter Games, Alphabet Games, Playing with Poetry, Concrete Poetry, Tongue Twisters, Spoonerisms, Lapsus Linguae, Games of Lewis Carroll, Consequences, Twenty Questions, Hangman, Puns, and The Longest Word. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.