Ian Hamilton Finlay

In the early 1970s the Scottish poet Ian Hamilton Finlay began the ‘neoclassical rearmament’ of his garden in the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh, resulting in the creation of ‘Little Sparta’.

Stephen Bann, who first met Finlay in the 1960s and has published two volumes of their correspondence, reflects on the significance of the references to ancient Greece and Rome found in this unique terrain. A drinks reception follows the talk.