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Selected Poems 1988-2016
Alan Halsey
Published by Shearsman 2017
Edition 1st
Format Second-hand books Condition Mint
Wrappers. This selection focuses on Alan Halsey’s longer poems from the period and brings together the previously scattered sequences Ars Poetica, Tracks & Tracts of the Lizopard, A Looking-Glass for Logoclasts and Latin for Today: The Sequel. It includes some revised and expanded texts such as the John Dee libretto Loagaeth alongside poems written since Rampant Inertia, published by Shearsman in 2014.
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Price £12.95
256pp
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WB2095
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Spells against Green Field Development
Alan Halsey
Published by West House Books 1994
Edition 1st Limitation 150 numbered copies
Format Second-hand books Condition Mint
Poems & graphics.
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Price £5.00
16pp
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Term as in Aftermath
Alan Halsey
Published by Ahadada 2009
Edition 1st
Format Second-hand books Condition Mint
Poems 2005-7, including the complete ‘Looking-Glass for Logoclasts’, the first publication of ‘Unkempt Archive’ and in the title sequence re-readings of texts from the schoolbooks of the ancient Egyptians via Seneca and Stein to ‘The Tennis Court Oath’ and the codenames of recent military operations, together with translations of newly discovered fragments of Mercurialis and further studies of the lizopard.
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Price £12.00
100pp
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The Text of Shelley’s Death
Alan Halsey
Published by Optic Nerve 2010
Format Second-hand books Condition Mint
CD, 70min 37sec. Studio reading by the author recorded by Colin Still in November 2009.
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Price £12.00
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The Text of Shelley’s Death
Alan Halsey
Published by West House Books 2001
Edition Reprint
Format Second-hand books Condition Mint
There is hardly a detail in any of the tellings and retellings of the story of Shelley’s drowning which does not contradict, directly or silently, a detail in another. The Text of Shelley’s Death collates these variant tellings using the techniques of the scholarly variorum. It is a kaleidoscope of voices, a collage prose-poem, a biographical and critical study, a mystery. ‘This remarkable little book ... a fascinating exercise in mutability ... sometimes baffling, but never less than poetic’ (Robert Nye). ‘It’s that rarest of things, a contribution to scholarship which is at the same time a genuine work of art, with two lives: a Romantic, fragmentary, Shelleyan confusion, and a deconstructed, wry, Halseyan sympathy’ (Paul Merchant). Second edition typeset by the original publisher, Five Seasons Press.
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Price £10.00
84pp
ISBN
1-904052-00-2
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The Text of Shelley’s Death
Alan Halsey
Published by Five Seasons 1995
Edition 1st Limitation 26 lettered & signed
Format Second-hand books Condition Mint
’A collage prose-poem, a biographical and critical study, a mystery.’ This special edition was handprinted letterpress on handmade Fabriano Umbria. The binding reproduces an Italian ‘memorandum book’ used by Shelley in 1822. In original solander box reproducing two leaves from The Triumph of Life manuscript.
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Price £250.00
82pp
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Versions of Martial
Alan Halsey
Published by Knives Forks & Spoons 2015
Edition 1st
Format Titles in print Condition Mint
Versions of Martial offers a more generous choice of the Latin poet’s work than most translators allow. Alongside the familiar scurrilous and sometimes obscene epigrams Alan Halsey takes on aspects of the oeuvre which modern readers find deeply uncomfortable, particularly the poems addressed to the Emperor Domitian. These versions revel in anachronism and persistently refuse a fixed point of view: Martial is as often seen in Flavian Rome as in the England of New Labour and the Big Society, pointing up the mendacities of private wealth, promiscuity and poetry while quibbling with his academic editors and commentators. It sometimes seems that poet and translator don’t much care for each other but a little love-hate never goes amiss and they do enjoy a good spat.
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Price £12.00
214pp
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Winterreisen
Alan Halsey, Kelvin Corcoran
Published by Knives Forks & Spoons 2019
Edition 1st
Format Second-hand books Condition Mint
Paperback. 9 colour images. These collaborative sequences were written during the winter months 2015-18. The poets’ journeys took them from Hove via Paris to Istanbul, on to Baghdad then across the Steppes and along the Silk Road. They nearly reached the North Pole before landing on the Moon. Returning to England they recorded its savage desolation. Our bedraggled pair were rescued only by discovering in their battered rucksacks a formal austerity as regular and elliptical as the world itself, selflessly announced to the innocent reader with each desperate and conclusive breath.
’Halsey and Corcoran do the only thing poets of genius can do in the face of the new "geist" and that is come on like some bad stand-up double act vomiting out ancient myths in the shape of contemporary news feeds.’ Steve Hanson, Manchester Review
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Price £14.00
82pp
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WB2183
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