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Alan Halsey

After Sappho frag. 16


Published by Five Seasons Press 2015

Edition 1st   Limitation 50 numbered & signed.

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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WB1651

Alan Halsey

A Horse That Runs

To & Fro with Wallace Stevens

with Kelvin Corcoran

Published by Constitutional Information 2015

Edition 1st

Condition Mint

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.

Price £6.00

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20pp


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WB1767

Alan Halsey

Rampant Inertia


Published by Shearsman 2014

Edition 1st

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

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114pp


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WB1639

Alan Halsey

Versions of Martial


Published by Knives Forks & Spoons 2015

Edition 1st

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.

Price £12.00

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214pp


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WB1649

Alan Halsey

The Text of Shelley’s Death


Published by Five Seasons 1995

Edition 1st   Limitation 26 lettered & signed

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.

Price £250.00


82pp


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WB1872

Alan Halsey

Selected Poems 1988-2016


Published by Shearsman 2017

Edition 1st

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.

Price £12.95

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256pp


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WB2095

Alan Halsey

Winterreisen

with Kelvin Corcoran

Published by Knives Forks & Spoons 2019

Edition 1st

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

Price £14.00

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82pp


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WB2183

Alan Halsey

Remarks of Uncertain Consequence


Published by Five Seasons Press 2022

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

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124pp


ISBN
978-0-947960-99-5


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WB2184

 

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