Not Everything Remotely: Selected Poems 1978-2004 - Couverture souple

Halsey, Alan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1844711064 ISBN 13 : 9781844711062

Editeur : Salt Publishing, 2006

Synopsis

Not Everything Remotely is the widest-ranging gathering of Halsey’s poems to date. Some have not previously been published while many appeared in fugitive editions and collections now out of print. It brings together poems which slowly developed into broadly-related sequences such as the verse-letters begun in 1979 as communiques from the Welsh border and continued into the ’90s tracking the savageries of the Thatcher years. It also collects his `emblem’ poems, in which traditional devices are reworked within the modernist perspective; these and other short poems veer between political epigram and an Ars Poetica. Of his recent work there is a selection from the sequence in progress A Looking-Glass for Logoclasts. Halsey’s poems often draw on familiar forms of discourse such as the financial, philosophical and journalistic, set alongside the specialist and marginal vocabularies used in such studies as linguistics, ufology and the paranormal; they may or may not be a satire which is enacted `in the absence of a validated hierarchy of discourse’ (Tim Woods).

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Alan Halsey was born in London. He ran The Poetry Bookshop in Hay-on-Wye from 1979-96 and moved to Sheffield in 1997, continuing to work as a specialist bookseller and as editor of West House Books. His major publications include Five Years Out (1989), The Text of Shelley’s Death (1995), A Robin Hood Book (1996) and Wittgenstein’s Devil (2000). He has written several short studies of Thomas Lovell Beddoes and re-edited his Death’s Jest-Book in 2003.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Salt Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1844711064
• ISBN 13: 9781844711062
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 292
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• Personne responsable: non disponible