Ian Hamilton Finlay
Private Tutor Issue 11 (text only)
May 1970
The Weed Boat Masters Ticket Preliminary Test (Part One)
1. Who - or what - was 'the little flat Snowflake of Runcorn'?
2. Arrange the following according to size:
boot
barge
seaboot
unterseeboot
shoe
bootee
3. Write short paragraphs on any two of the following examples of the one-word poem:
A Cornish Lugger
PZoe
A St. Monance-Built Motor Yacht
Fifi
A 19th Century Catamaran
The Beggarstaff Brothers
4. With which of the following publications would you associate the headline:
FRUITDISH HARBOURS ZULUS
1. 'Fishing News', 2) 'Homes and Gardens', 3) 'Scottish International'?
5a. Is a 'stackyard' a spar on a haybarge?
b. Is a 'psalter'
1) an old, religious fisherman, 2) an Orkney kipper, 3) neither of these?
6. Comment on the statement 'A ship is not a shoe sealed for seafaring'.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
Tarasque Press The Trent Book Shop Trent Bridge Nottingham
By Courtesy of the Estate of Ian Hamilton Finlay.
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