A sequence of forty 12-line poems Kelvin Corcoran and Alan Halsey exchanged in the winter of 2014-15: an extended improvisation on prominent themes in the work of Wallace Stevens. Neither homage nor critique the sequence addresses the authors’ often conflicted feelings about Stevens’ poetry and particularly the evident division Stevens made between his personal and professional life and his writing -- a division which perhaps all poets must make and question to stay moderately sane.

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20pp

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A Robin Hood Book

Alan Halsey

Published by West House Books 1996

Edition 1st Limitation 26 lettered & signed

Format Second-hand books Condition Mint

Prose-poem/essay. ‘A Robin Hood Book is not a straight retelling of the Hood legends, but an examination and explanation, a convoluted diatribe where past and present politics are shown up for what they are (or were); a studious prose conceived from the twists and vagaries of history, part plot, part un-plot, embellished with poetry, or possessed to completion by the stabbing (un)certainties that come part and parcel with the outlaw mind ... we should try to read A Robin Hood Book as both radical and dangerous.’ (Paul Green, Chicago Review) ‘What happens here is an act of super-construction, this Robin Hood lives ... And the whole thing runs so smooth -- the language is childishly simple to begin with then gets progressively more involved, but look for the joins in vain. This is entertainment of a high order.’ (Tim Allen, Terrible Work) Typeset at Five Seasons Press. The trade edition is now out of print.

Price £18.00

64pp

ISBN
0-9521891-3-5

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A Small Yacht Launched with Instructions to the Reader

Alan Halsey

Published by Five Seasons [1980]

Edition 1st

Format Second-hand books Condition Fine

Broadside approx 435 x 320 mm. Letterpress printed red, green and dark blue on light blue paper.

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After Sappho frag. 16

Alan Halsey

Published by Five Seasons Press 2015

Edition 1st Limitation 50 numbered & signed.

Format Second-hand books Condition Mint

Edition limited to 50 copies numbered & signed. 320 x 450mm broadside handset in Bembo and handprinted on Velin Arches cotton mouldmade paper. The poem is accompanied by a giclee-printed reproduction of the original papyri now in the Bodleian Library.

Price £30.00

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Ahadada Reader 1

Alan Halsey, John Byrum, Geraldine Monk

Published by Ahadada 2004

Edition 1st

Format Second-hand books Condition Mint

The Ahadada Reader presents a sampling of poetry by contemporary avant-garde poets from around the world. For the past thirty years the poets represented in these pages have taken up diverse experiences of culture and language to forge a personal, direct and concise poetry that brings new sources of insight to the modern reader -- and continues to write new chapters in the history of English poetry. The Ahadada website is at www.sendecki.com/ahadada

Price £8.00

86pp

ISBN
0-9732233-3-2

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An Alphabet of Emblems

Alan Halsey

Published by Tern 1987

Edition 1st paperback

Format Second-hand books Condition Mint

An alphabetic sequence of 4-line poems with 4 colour prints by Nicholas Parry.

Price £6.00

36pp

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Auto Dada Café

Alan Halsey

Published by Five Seasons Press 1987

Edition 1st

Format Second-hand books Condition Mint

Poems from the early 1980s. ‘Halsey’s writings unite formal experiment, linguistic precision, and concern for a vital relation between people and place. A master of collage and an inspired improviser, he has worked the patterning of strictly visual material back into the verbal medium’ (Gavin Selerie, Pages).

Price £8.00

32pp

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Dante’s Barber Shop

(De Vulgari Eloquentia)

Alan Halsey

Published by West House Books 2001

Edition 1st Limitation 100 copies numbered & signed

Format Second-hand books Condition Mint

Prose-poem/essay, black-and-white graphics throughout: treatment for a film of De Vulgari Eloquentia. Spiral-bound A4.

Price £12.00

40pp

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