Poems, sequences, prose & graphics 1988-2004, with an interactive Windows/Mac CD showing all 208 images of the text-graphic work Memory Screen. Contents include A Robin Hood Book, the epigrammatic Mercurialis poems, explorations of Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Clark Coolidge, emblematic verse and, inter alia, the Art of Memory as applied to Hay-on-Wye and to Sheffield where the text and photographs of Dante’s Barber Shop become the treatment for a film of De Vulgari Eloquentia. Last few copies in stock.

Price £18.50

416pp

List ref
WB270

Second-hand books

Memory Screen

Alan Halsey

Published by West House 2005

Format Second-hand books Condition Mint

Interactive Windows/Mac CD showing all 208 images of this text-graphic work, an ‘impossible book’ exhibited at the Bury Text Festival April-May 2005. The CD is also issued as an insert in Halsey’s Marginalien published by Five Seasons Press.

Price £5.00

List ref
WB271

Second-hand books

Not Everything Remotely

Selected Poems 1978-2005

Alan Halsey

Published by Salt 2006

Edition 1st

Format Second-hand books Condition Mint

Wrappers. Last few copies in stock. Along with many others this book was silently disappeared during the Salt Purge circa 2015.

Price £16.00

278pp

List ref
WB650

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Perspectives on the Reach

Alan Halsey

Published by Galloping Dog 1981

Edition 1st Limitation 10 numbered & signed

Format Second-hand books Condition Near fine

A4 mimeo. Cover by the author. Wrappers slightly rubbed.

Price £18.00

57pp

List ref
WB1460

Second-hand books

Rampant Inertia

Alan Halsey

Published by Shearsman 2014

Edition 1st

Format Second-hand books Condition Mint

Wrappers. In Rampant Inertia Alan Halsey, identified by Tony Lopez as a ‘a normally secret and invisible language spy’, is found going about his familiar business, dismantling the rhetoric of Austerity while tracking scientific and other uncertainties, rereading Burton in the light of the Arab Spring, miming Our Mutual Friend, transcribing a racehorse’s gossip, mapping the bricked-up public toilets of Sheffield, tapping Lewis and Clark’s conversation in the Lost Trail Pass or fitfully failing to translate Aretino’s erotica. Is ‘Baa baa black sheep’ a political poem? He thinks so. Rampant Inertia completes a trilogy of books, following Term As In Aftermath (2009) and Even If Only Out Of (2011).

Price £10.00

114pp

List ref
WB1639

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Remarks of Uncertain Consequence

Alan Halsey

Published by Five Seasons Press 2022

Format Titles in print Condition New

Alan Halsey revisits scenes from his childhood in south London and in a sequence of prose poems reflects on his absence in his late mother’s photo collection. He also offers remarks on notions of heritage and empire, palaeontology, book dealing and collecting, the Great War, George the 3rd, Pompeii, psychoanalysis, etymology, dystopias, ageing, the Restoration court, leasehold, the Dulle Griet and pandemics among other topics in an array of eighty-one pieces, mostly poems, begun in 2009 and finished during the 2021 lockdown.

Available from Five Seasons Press at www.fiveseasonspress.com. Price and other details on the Press’s home page. Email: books@fiveseasonspress.com

124pp

ISBN
978-0-947960-99-5

List ref
WB2184

Titles in print

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