Download or read book Stonypath Days written by Ian Hamilton Finlay and published by Bitter Lemon Press. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These letters to (and from) Finlay’s friend, the English poet and scholar, Stephen Bann, centre on the initial development of the garden at Stonypath, near Edinburgh, later to become the world renowned ‘Little Sparta’. They cover Finlay’s turn away from poetry towards sculpture and garden design, and the thinking behind, and consequences of, this development.