In the fall of 1953 Indiana enrolled at the University of Edinburgh to fulfill the academic requirements for his bachelor of fine arts. The visual arts in Edinburgh held little interest for him, so he concentrated on writing poetry, finding the environment more suited to writing than to painting. He hand-set and illustrated his poems with his own lithographs in the prints and graphics studios of the Edinburgh College of Art, and joined the university’s poetry society, for which he designed the cover of its anthology, Windfall.
