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Field Visit
Date 28 September 2002
Event ID 616111
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/616111
Herm of Iain Crichton Smith by Michael Snowden.
A simple head and neck of the poet, showing him bald apart from hair at the sides, his eyes somewhat droopy, his ear higher on his left than on his right, and his mouth creasing in a slight smile. Gunsight eyes with irises faintly incised. The whole head has a green patina.
Inscriptions: On front of pedestal (incised letters): IAIN / CRICHTON / SMITH
[Two glass plaques bolted onto the sides of the pedestal contain the poet's biography and a poem, 'The Exiles', written in both Gaelic and English.]
Signatures: Bottom right of back (incised letters): Snowden
Design period: 2001-2002
Information from Public Monuments and Sculpture Association (PMSA Work Ref : EDIN0859)
