This list represents our remaining stock of poetry books and ephemera of all periods but with emphasis on modernist poetry published by small presses.
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Alan Halsey
An Alphabet of Emblems
Published by Tern 1987
Edition 1st paperback
Condition Mint
An alphabetic sequence of 4-line poems with 4 colour prints by Nicholas Parry.
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Price £6.00
36pp
List ref
WB149
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Alan Halsey
Marginalien
Published by Five Seasons 2005
Edition 1st
Condition Mint
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.
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Price £18.50
416pp
List ref
WB270
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Alan Halsey
Memory Screen
Published by West House 2005
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.
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Price £5.00
List ref
WB271
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Alan Halsey
A Small Yacht Launched with Instructions to the Reader
Published by Five Seasons [1980]
Edition 1st
Condition Fine
Broadside approx 435 x 320 mm. Letterpress printed red, green and dark blue on light blue paper.
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Price £10.00
List ref
WB275
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Alan Halsey
Spells against Green Field Development
Published by West House Books 1994
Edition 1st Limitation 150 numbered copies
Condition Mint
Poems & graphics.
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Price £5.00
16pp
List ref
WB87
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Alan Halsey
Days of ‘49
with
Gavin Selerie
Published by West House Books 1999
Edition 1st
Condition Mint
Poetry, prose & b/w graphics exploring 1949, the year of the authors’ births. ‘Days of ’49 is a beautiful and moving volume ... so brilliant that it points to a whole possible new road’ (Andrew Duncan). ‘A conception of poetry not as confession or self-expression but as record and recognition that the individual is somehow an expression of history as well as being expressed by it. Days of ’49 invites you to participate in a kind of performative meditation about history, poetry and texts and about the private life and global systems’ (David Kennedy). Typeset at Five Seasons Press.
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Price £14.00
136pp
ISBN
0-9531509-8-4
List ref
WB90
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Alan Halsey
Dante’s Barber Shop
(De Vulgari Eloquentia)
Published by West House Books 2001
Edition 1st Limitation 100 copies numbered & signed
Condition Mint
Prose-poem/essay, black-and-white graphics throughout: treatment for a film of De Vulgari Eloquentia. Spiral-bound A4.
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Price £12.00
40pp
List ref
WB91
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Alan Halsey
The Text of Shelley’s Death
Published by West House Books 2001
Edition Reprint
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
List ref
WB92
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