Poetry. TERM AS IN AFTERMATH is Alan Halsey's first full-length collection since his retrospectives MARGINALIEN (Five Seasons, 2005) and Not Everything Remotely (Salt, 2006). Here is the complete "Looking-glass for Logoclasts" alongside the first viewing of his "Unkempt Archives" 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 code names of recent military operations, together with translations of newly discovered fragments of Mercurialis and further studies of the lizopard.

Author Hometown: Sheffield ENG



About the author: 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.