Poor. Old. Tired. Horse.

Ian Hamilton Finlay, ed.

Poor. Old. Tired. Horse.

no.19

[1966].

Displayed is “Io and the ox-eye daisy” by Ronald Johnson, with design by John Furnival.

John Furnival’s design work aligns the round appearance of the human eye and the center (or “eye”) of the ox-eye daisy, overlapping layers of meaning within “I” and the significance of “IO” as a sound and symbol. Poor. Old. Tired. Horse. was an international little magazine edited by Finlay and published by Wild Hawthorne Press from 1962–1967, in 25 issues.

From the Collection of Steve Clay at Granary Books.