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texts
Self-Portrait
in a ’90s Bestiary
recent publications
Perspectives on the Reach (Galloping Dog 1981)
Auto Dada Café (Five Seasons 1987)
Five Years Out (Galloping Dog 1989)
Reasonable Distance (Equipage 1992)
The Text of Shelley’s Death (Five Seasons 1995, West House 2001)
A Robin Hood Book (West House 1996)
Danse Macabre: Death & The Printers, with David Annwn, Kelvin Corcoran & Gavin
Selerie (West House & Is Press 1997)
Fit To Print, with Karen Mac Cormack (Coach House & West House 1998)
Days of ’49, with Gavin Selerie (West House 1999)
Wittgenstein’s Devil: Selected Writing 1978-1998 (Stride 2000)
Dante’s Barber Shop (West House 2001)
Lives of the Poets: A Preliminary Count, with Martin Corless-Smith (Is
Press 2002)
In Addition: Seventeen Lives of the Poets (La Perruque 2004)
Ahadada Reader 1, with John Byrum & Geraldine Monk (Ahadada 2004)
The Epigrams & Fragments of Mercurialis the Younger (West House 2004)
Marginalien (Five Seasons 2005)
A Looking-Glass for Logoclasts (Free Poetry 2005)
Not Everything Remotely: Selected Poems 1978-2005 (Salt 2006)
Quaoar, with Ralph Hawkins & Kelvin Corcoran (West House 2006)
Paradigm of the Tinctures, with Steve McCaffery (forthcoming, Granary 2007)
biographical note
Born 1949 in London. Philosophy degree, London 1972. Lived on Dartmoor
1973-77. Ran The Poetry Bookshop in Hay-on-Wye 1979-96. Married Geraldine
Monk in 1998 & now lives in Sheffield. Also works as a graphic artist & book
designer and has been the publisher of West House Books since 1994.
poetics
‘MC-S: I’m interviewing you as a poet, but I doubt whether
you see your role as that distinct …
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AH: My graphics I see as texts of a sort. Verse shades into prose poems,
the prose via textual collage into, let’s say, critical essays.
Even the satirical journalism I was doing for a local paper a year or
so back. It’s all part of the same project.’
Martin Corless-Smith Words Caught On The Run: An Interview with Alan
Halsey, 1997
‘Alan Halsey claims there is a difference between a poem published
in a commercial anthology and in an independently published book. He
says they are different poems.’
Laura Moriarty Poetics of Distribution, 2003
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