Poetry. DAYS OF '49 is an important new collaborative work from major UK poets Alan Halsey and Gavin Selerie. In 1949 the USSR exploded its first A-bomb, Ezra Pound won the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, Samuel Beckett burnt his letters from James Joyce, Orson Welles appeared in THE THIRD MAN, and Halsey and Selerie were born. Here they celebrate their fiftieth birthdays. In DAYS OF '49 these two writers mingle history, autobiography, and poetic admixtures to produce this distinctly original document. Also available from SPD are Halsey's wonderful book THE TEXT OF SHELLEY'S DEATH as well as A ROBIN HOOD BOOK. Selerie's ELIZABETHAN OVERHANG and ROXY are also available.