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Ian Hamilton Finlay embraced a variety of different media and disciplines, including poetry, philosophy, history, gardening and landscape design. Early in his career he was Britain’s foremost concrete poet – a form of poetry in which the visual, typographical arrangement of words was as important in conveying effect and meaning as the words themselves. Throughout his career, and no matter what material he used, his approach remained that of a poet giving visual form to ideas. This was most fully realised by Finlay in his now famous garden, Little Sparta, begun in 1966 and set in the Pentland Hills of southern Scotland.