Poetry. WITTGENSTEIN'S DEVIL is a thoughtful selection of Alan Halsey's work from 1978 to 1998, including previously unpublished texts. This is a fascinating book by one of the best contemporary British writers of innovative poetry. Halsey's writing rivets words to the page, as he rivets the reader's attention on the movement of language and words through space -- fragmente. His grasp of language, or the many layers and interiorities that make a text work, is about second to none -- Chicago Review. Alan Halsey is the publisher of West House Books. Recent titles by him available from SPD are THE TEXT OF SHELLEY'S DEATH, THE ROBIN HOOD BOOK, FIT TO PRINT (with Karen MacCormick) and DAYS OF '49 (with Gavin Selerie).

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Alan Halsey was born in London in 1949, earned a philosophy degree, London, 1972, and ran The Poetry Bookshop in Hay-on-Wye 1979-97. He lived in Sheffield since 1997, working as a specialist bookseller and publishing West House Books. He married Geraldine Monk in 1998.