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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.

Price £5.00

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16pp


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WB87

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.

Price £14.00

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136pp


ISBN
0-9531509-8-4


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WB90

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.

Price £12.00

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40pp


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WB91

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.

Price £10.00

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84pp


ISBN
1-904052-00-2


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WB92

Alan Halsey

Wittgenstein’s Devil

Selected Writing 1978-98


Published by Stride 2002

Edition 2nd printing

Condition Mint

Wittgenstein’s Devil exhilaratingly explores language and ideology, difference and identity, in a poetry of passionate and stoical resistance. -- Robert Potts, The Guardian.

Price £10.00

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148pp


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WB109

Alan Halsey

Lives of the Poets: a Preliminary Count

with Martin Corless-Smith

Published by IsPress 2002

Edition 1st

Condition Mint

73 lives in the form of miniature poems, from Chaucer to John Gray.

Price £6.00

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36pp


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WB110

Alan Halsey

Auto Dada Café


Published by Five Seasons Press 1987

Edition 1st

Condition Mint

Poems from the early 1980s. ‘Halsey’s writings unite formal experiment, linguistic precision, and concern for a vital relation between people and place. A master of collage and an inspired improviser, he has worked the patterning of strictly visual material back into the verbal medium’ (Gavin Selerie, Pages).

Price £8.00

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32pp


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WB73

Alan Halsey

Ahadada Reader 1

with John Byrum, Geraldine Monk

Published by Ahadada 2004

Edition 1st

Condition Mint

The Ahadada Reader presents a sampling of poetry by contemporary avant-garde poets from around the world. For the past thirty years the poets represented in these pages have taken up diverse experiences of culture and language to forge a personal, direct and concise poetry that brings new sources of insight to the modern reader -- and continues to write new chapters in the history of English poetry. The Ahadada website is at www.sendecki.com/ahadada

Price £8.00

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86pp


ISBN
0-9732233-3-2


List ref
WB107

 

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