Alan Halsey

The Text of Shelley’s Death

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The Text of Shelley’s Death

An Optic Nerve CD, 70′ 37″

Recording by Colin Still

£12 post free in the UK. Payment by cheque or Paypal.

The Text of Shelley’s Death was first published by Five Seasons in 1995. The West House reprint, 2001, 84pp, is still available @ £8.95

The Text of Shelley’s Death ‘merely underlines one’s worst fears that the postmodern world view adds nothing to any subject and tends to confuse what we already know.’ Christopher Goulding, Keats-Shelley Review

”I sometimes carry it with me for protection against the spirits who want to steer me away toward death.’ Ronald Palmer, Goodreads

West House Books, 40 Crescent Road, Nether Edge, Sheffield S7 1HN

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Paradigm of the Tinctures

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The new ebook from Argotist Ebooks is “Paradigm of the Tinctures” by Steve McCaffery and Alan Halsey. This revised and expanded edition of “Paradigm of the Tinctures” by Steve McCaffery and Alan Halsey revisits the classic humanist idea of the Sister Arts where poetry is understood to be a speaking picture and a picture a silent poem. The revisitation, however, is bluntly revisionary and the result is a fresh text-graphic dialogue. Available as a free ebook here.

New from West House Books

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Co-published by BookThug & West House Books
 
 
Karen Mac Cormack:
 
TALE LIGHT: NEW & SELECTED POEMS 1984-2009
 
192pp.
isbn 978-1-904052-26-5
 
£14.95 postfree in UK
 
Review copies will be sent on request.
 
 
TALE LIGHT draws from previously uncollected poems, revisions of published earlier poetry from Nothing by Mouth, Straw Cupid, Quill Driver, Quirks & Quillets, Marine Snow, The Tongue Moves Talk, At Issue, Vanity Release, and a rich selection of new work. For the first time the strategies Mac Cormack develops for each separate project (her often witty and ludic explorations, wherein she confronts the habitual in language and representation) are brought together for the reader as a collective textual experience.
 
‘Mac Cormack’s concern with the contingent, fugitive aspects of sense and perception as revealed when confronted with their temporal character yields a pleasure not as mastery but of mystery and surprise. … The atomic components of Mac Cormack’s text function as “lucid apertures”. Openings “to supply instead of render” a focus on the multiple.’ Scott Pound, American Book Review
 
‘From the beginning this poet’s approaches to writing have been beguiling: seemingly aloof and simultaneously engaging, probing and juxtaposing lexes, iconoclastic in her approaches and very funny. … Few writers make such a wrestle with language and our own unconscious syntactic projections onto the printed page so rich and illuminating.’ David Annwn, The David Jones Journal
 
 
Other titles by Karen Mac Cormack available from West House
( * = not represented in Tale Light ) :
 
* Implexures (Complete Edition). Polybiographical prose-poem. Chax & West House 2008. 132pp. £11.95
Plural Modifiers. Gargoyle 2006. 4pp. £2.50
* From a Middle (with Steve McCaffery). Housepress 2nd edn 2003. 28pp. £6
Nothing by Mouth. BookThug reprint 2003. 40pp. £6.50
At Issue. Coach House 2001. 70pp. £8.50
* Fit to Print (with Alan Halsey). Coach House & West House 1998. 64pp. £8.50
The Tongue Moves Talk. Chax & West House 1997. 60pp. £7.50
 
(all prices including UK postage)
 
Payment by cheque or Paypal.
 
West House Books, 40 Crescent Road, Nether Edge, Sheffield S7 1HN
 

Bill Griffiths launch tomorrow

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A reminder that Sean Bonney, Ken Edwards, Allen Fisher, Alan Halsey, Geraldine Monk & Maggie O’Sullivan will read the whole of “Cycles” to launch the first volume of Bill Griffiths’ Collected Poems.

It’s in Room Clore 203, Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck College (across the square facing the main entrance), London WC1, starting at 7.30pm.

Entrance free.

Via Ken Edwards

Alan Halsey rebooted

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Technical problems have dogged this upload, but should be resolved now. This version of Alan’s reading at the very first Other Room on April 9th 2008 should take seconds rather than minutes to load.

Vodpod videos no longer available.

Click here to open the film in a bigger screen.

BILL GRIFFITHS: COLLECTED EARLIER POEMS (1966-80)

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We’ve already posted about this, but it’s well worth a reminder that Bill Griffiths’ Collected Earlier Poems (1966-80) is now available. Details of this and the upcoming Birkbeck launch event below, via Alan Halsey:

BILL GRIFFITHS: COLLECTED EARLIER POEMS (1966-80)

Published by Reality Street in association with West House Books

This volume brings together for the first time the late Bill Griffiths’ poetry up to ‘Building: The New London Hospital’. The text, edited by Alan Halsey in consultation with Ken Edwards, includes the full ‘Cycles’ and ‘War W/ Windsor’ sequences that so astonished readers when they first appeared, as well as much other poetry that was published by his own Pirate Press imprint, Writers Forum and other small presses during the 1970s; and also poems and performance texts that have only made fleeting appearances in ephemeral pamphlets and magazines, or have never been published before. The works are presented in largely chronological order. Comprehensive endnotes detail both the publishing history and (Griffiths having been an inveterate reviser) variations in texts and alternative versions.

368pp.
ISBN: 978 1874400 45 5
Publication date 29 January 2010
Pre-publication price £17.50 post free
(after January, £18 + post)

Orders to reality.street@virgin.net or info@westhousebooks.co.uk

LAUNCH at Birkbeck, Wednesday 17th February, 7.30
in Room 203, Clore Management Centre (Torrington Square, facing Birkbeck main entrance)
featuring a reading of the complete Cycles by Sean Bonney, Ken Edwards, Allen Fisher, Alan Halsey, Geraldine Monk & Maggie O’Sullivan

a noun sing e·ratio 13 · 2010 · featuring the Alan Halsey interview

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a noun sing e·ratio 13 · 2010 · featuring the Alan Halsey interview

with poetry by Laynie Browne, Jill Jones, Jane Adam, Jeff Encke, Joseph F. Keppler, Mark Cunningham, Jadon Rempel, Keith Higginbotham, Anne Fitzgerald, and Halvard Johnson

e·ratio editions e-chaps by Travis Macdonald and Carey Scott Wilkerson and featuring The Alan Halsey Interview

edited for real by Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino

More here.

Reading the Removal of Literature

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Alan Halsey’s review of December Other Room reader Nick Thurston’s Reading the Removal of Literature can be read at Stride magazine. Here’s the start:

Reading the Remove of Literature is unlike any book I’ve looked at. I’ve read it too but the looking at it is the first essential. With all but a few books one reads without consciousness of seeing. Nick Thurston’s book demands that one look at it constantly and never detach the seeing from the reading – and yet it is only marginally what we generally describe as a ‘visual text’.

The first words of Craig Dworkin’s introduction set the scene: ‘The book you are holding is an edition of Maurice Blanchot’s L’Espace littéraire, although not a word of Blanchot’s text remains. Every page of this book has been assiduously erased by Nick Thurston.

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damn the caesars

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Volume 5 of this US magazine is out now and ready to buy, featuring, amongst others, Other Room readers Sean Bonney, Alan Halsey and Geraldine Monk and The Other Room’s very own Scott Thurston. Full list:

  • Roberto Tejada
  • Stephen Collis
  • Margaret Konkol
  • Scott Thurston
  • Kemeny Babineau
  • Alejandra Pizarnik translated by John Martone
  • Sean Bonney
  • Kaia Sand
  • Alan Halsey
  • Alessandro Porco
  • Geraldine Monk
  • Ammiel Alcalay
  • Jeffery Beam
  • William R. Howe

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Halsey and Monk at Ledbury

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4.15pm – 5.15pm, 10 July. Burgage Hall. £8

 

“Alan Halsey will talk about his latest work, the Lives of the Poets, which he has been working on for the past eight years. As the typical literary biography gets heavier and denser, Halsey’s 191 lives take the opposite approach: each Life is a poem distilled in a few highly-concentrated lines. The famous (Chaucer, Wyatt, Milton, Pope) appear alongside the lesser known and many forgotten poets, including a large number of women, are saluted. Geraldine Monk is an electrifying performer of her poetry, which has appeared in many anthologies and maps the places she has lived with a visceral intensity, as if places possess her. This will be an event full of discoveries and contrasts.”

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MESHWORKS

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Meshworks is a site dedicated to documenting and preserving video and sound recordings of writing in performance. The site’s title is taken from an essay by cris cheek in Additional Apparitions: Poetry, Performance, and Site-Specificity: “Each poetry reading is a meshwork, a gathering, of differentially inflected components.”

Writers featured include previous Other Room readers Tim Atkins and Alan Halsey and upcoming readers Sean Bonney and Frances Kruk.

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Alan Halsey: Term as in Aftermath

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Poems 2005-2008, including the complete ‘Looking-glass for Logoclasts’, the first publication of ‘Unkempt Archive’ and in the title sequence re-readings of texts from the schoolbooks of the ancient Egyptians via Seneca and Stein to The Tennis Court Oath and the codenames of recent military operations, together with translations of newly discovered fragments of Mercurialis and further studies of the lizopard.

100pp. ISBN 978-0-9808873-5-8. £11.95 postfree in UK.
 
North American distribution by SPD. More information at West House Books.