Drama, described by its author as ‘A Dithyrambic in the florid Gothic style’. This new edition, prepared by Alan Halsey, presents for the first time in a separate volume the later version in the text established by H.W.Donner in 1935; unfinished at the time of the author’s death in 1849 it is a substantially different work from the version prepared for publication, unsuccessfully, in 1829. Modelled on the Jacobean ‘revenge’ tragedies the play is sustained by a poetry of glittering surface with an ever-present undertow of death and destruction, tempered by humour deriving out of a remorseless sense of absurdity and alienation. ‘Judicious editorial work’ (TLS). Published in association with the Thomas Lovell Beddoes Society and typeset at Five Seasons Press.

Price £16.00

184pp

ISBN
1-9040520-8-8

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A Selection from the Works of Thomas Swan

Thomas Swan

Ed. Martin Corless-Smith, Alan Halsey

Published by West House Books 2001

Edition 1st

Format Second-hand books Condition Mint

Poetry & prose edited from Worcester City Records Office MS 8911 by Martin Corless-Smith & Alan Halsey. This is the first selection from the poems of Thomas Swan (1653-80) since the Worcester Antiquarian Society’s pioneering edition of 1876. Using a recently discovered manuscript the selection corrects some earlier errors in transcription and includes previously unrecorded variants and fragments. Swan’s remarks on colour are printed for the first time. ‘Its editors deserve congratulations for permitting Thomas Swan so to disturb our sense of historical continuity in poetry, and permitting him to put our modernity into question’ (Alan Munton)

Price £5.00

20pp

ISBN
0-9531509-7-6

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Lion Lion

Tom Raworth

Published by Trigram 1970

Edition 1st, paperback issue

Format Second-hand books Condition Near fine

Simultaneous paperback edition. Author’s inscription on second half-title: ‘Dear Lee [Harwood] / See you on the corner opposite China / about half past november / [2 arrows pointing in opposite directions] / love / Tom / [illegible placename] Nov 6/70’. Upper wrapper somewhat mottled at fore-edge, internally fine.

Price £90.00

48pp

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Three Part Invention and other scored occasions

Tony Baker

Published by West House Books 2003

Edition 1st

Format Second-hand books Condition Mint

Four sequences.

Price £6.00

36pp

ISBN
1904052150

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Equal Signs

Tony Lopez

Published by Equipage 2004

Edition 1st

Format Second-hand books Condition Fine

Wrappers. The author’s signed dedication to Lee Harwood on final blank.

Price £12.00

35pp

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False Memory

Tony Lopez

Published by The Figures 1996

Edition 1st Limitation 450

Format Second-hand books Condition Fine

Wrappers. The author’s signed dedication to Lee Harwood on title page.

Price £12.00

36pp

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Text 2

Tony Trehy (editor)

Published by Bury Text Festival 2009

Edition 1st

Format Second-hand books Condition Mint

Hardback anthology of texts, graphics & mixed genres. Contributors include Phil Davenport, Hester Reeve, Alan Halsey, P.Inman, Allen Fisher, Caroline Bergvall, Tony Lopez, Scott Thurston, Jesse Glass & Carol Watts.

Price £10.00

64pp

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Epigrams and Fragments

trans. Alan Halsey Mercurialis the Younger

Published by West House Books 2004

Edition 1st

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Mercurialis the Younger, ‘of Anticyra in Phocis, famous for black hellebore’, fl. 260-285 AD. Seventy one of his poems survive in the Annales Anticyrae where they are quoted, usually in fragmentary form, to illustrate contemporary events and aspects of life in the province. The poems are acerbic and quarrelsome: Mercurialis likes to castigate doctors, philosophers, politicians, other poets, his several lovers and himself. This edition is the first complete translation of the extant poems.

Price £5.00

28pp

ISBN
1-904052-16-9

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