Published 2017. Paperback, 260pp, 9 x 6ins
ISBN 9781848615397 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]

Selected Poems 1988-2016 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.

‘Halsey exhilaratingly explores language and ideology, running different jargons and discourses together in a poetry of passionate and stoical resistance.’ —Robert Potts, The Guardian

‘He continues to create a kabbalah of cultural signs, a dictionary of linguistic possibilities, a stylish verbal music, in his essential role as courteous gadfly.’ —Paul Merchant, Chicago Review

‘Halsey’s poems come in such variety, from very straightforward, personal-voice addresses to the most recondite word salads – like a dense portable anthology from a rich and complex literary canon that simultaneously overlaps with but is fundamentally shifted from the recognizable “canon”.’ —Mark Scroggins, Culture Industry

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