Selected Poems 1988-2016

<p><em>Selected Poems 1988-2016 </em>focuses on Alan Halsey’s longer poems from the period and brings together the previously scattered sequences <em>Ars Poetica Tracks & Tracts of the Lizopard A Looking-Glass for Logoclasts </em>and <em>Latin for Today: The Sequel</em>. It includes some revised and expanded texts such as the John Dee libretto <em>Loagaeth </em>alongside poems written since <em>Rampant Inertia</em> published by Shearsman in 2014.</p><p> </p><p>“Halsey exhilaratingly explores language and ideology running different jargons and discourses together in a poetry of passionate and stoical resistance.” —Robert Potts <em>The Guardian</em></p><p>“He continues to create a kabbalah of cultural signs a dictionary of linguistic possibilities a stylish verbal music in his essential role as courteous gadfly.” —Paul Merchant <em>Chicago Review</em></p><p>“Halsey’s poems come in such variety from very straightforward personal-voice addresses to the most recondite word salads – like a dense portable anthology from a rich and complex literary canon that simultaneously overlaps with but is fundamentally shifted from the recognizable ‘canon’.” —Mark Scroggins <em>Culture Industry</em></p>