Poetry. One of Britain's outstanding contemporary poets, Alan Halsey was born in London, in 1949. He ran the Poetry Bookshop in Hay-on-Wye from 1979 to 1996. He now lives in Sheffield and is the publisher of West House Books. His remarkable works ("fierce and quiet . . . determined, and without illusion, the kind of poetry we need") include A Robin Hood Book (West House), The Text of Shelley's Death (Five Seasons), and Wittgenstein's Devil: Selected Writing 1978-1998 (Stride). Lives of the Poets: A Preliminary Count, was published by Ispress in 2002.
Author City: Sheffield ENG
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.