closely together in the early Sixties when both were exploring the potential of this new kind of poetry. Finlay went on to become the master of the "wayside object-poem" as Morgan describes it. Completing the circle and with characteristic double take, Finlay even realised some of his object poems in actual concrete. In a letter written in 1976 he remarks: "I have been trying to achieve a three-dimensional, large-scale version of Wave-Rock for years… I am promised a cast concrete version for this spring."
from Scotsman: A Model of Order: Concrete Poetry
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