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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

Not Everything Remotely

Selected Poems 1978-2005


Published by Salt 2006

Edition 1st

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

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.

Price £10.00

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WB275

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.

Price £18.50

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416pp


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WB270

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.

Price £5.00

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WB271

Alan Halsey

Homage to Homunculus Mandrake:

A New Reading of Death’s Jest-Book


Published by Thomas Lovell Beddoes Society 1996

Edition 1st

Condition Mint

An exploration of the Paracelsian aspects of Beddoes’ play, arguing that its structure is based on the ‘as above so below’ formula of medieval alchemy.

Price £5.00

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28pp


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WB145

Alan Halsey

Epitaphs & Variations


Published by Tern 1990

Edition 1st paperback

Condition Mint

10 memorial poems with colour portrait prints by Nicholas Parry.

Price £6.00

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24pp


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WB147

Alan Halsey

Five Years Out


Published by Galloping Dog 1989

Edition 1st

Condition Mint

A collection of longer sequences, from As Of Military Domains & Salvation Rituals (1982) to The Capitalist Twilight Revisited (1987). ‘Colloquialism, space-technological terms, Biblical phrases, linguistic jargon, allegory and more intimate language, jostle with one another in the absence of a validated hierarchy of discourse.’ (Tim Woods)

Price £10.00

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118pp


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WB148

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.

Price £6.00

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36pp


List ref
WB149

 

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