Alan B Halsey

Crimson Snow

20,000 Word NoveletteAs I stood in the cold December air and ran my fingers through the thick pelt on the wall of the shed, I imagined how great it would be to have one of my own. It would be amazing to work for a fur and claim it as mine; claim it, and know that I had earned it. I would get my chan...

A Shattered Memory

The typically green Appalachian foliage is ablaze in shades of red, orange, and yellow. The air carries the familiar chill of autumn and life is continuing as usual for Carolyn Crest, an English major at Centre University. One morning Carolyn receives an odd call from a friend that will send her spi...

The Inn

7,500 Word Short StoryBased on True EventsHave you ever been somewhere that everything felt off; a place where nothing is normal and everything is out of place? Have you ever spent the night at a place where you feared for your well-being? If you have, I share your pain. If you haven't, welcome to T...

A Robin Hood Book

Collected Poems & Sequences (1981-91)

Reality Street published Bill Griffiths' Collected Earlier Poems (1966-80) in 2010. This successor volume collects work from the following decade, bringing back into print poetry that appeared in hard-to-obtain small editions or was previously uncollected or unpublished. Bill Griffiths was a poet, A...

Fit to Print

Fit to Print is a collaborative series of poems whose format on the page is modelled on that most quotidian of reading materials - the newspaper. The writing itself displays a concern with daily events, and news factual and quasi-factual, emphasizing their information overload. Structured on pattern...

The Ivory Gate

Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849) was an English poet and dramatist whose early play The Brides' Tragedy was highly praised. He studied medicine at the Universities of Göttingen and Würzburg, where his involvement in radical politics led to his deportation. He spent the rest of his life in Switzerla...

Epigrams & Fragments of Mercurialis the Younger

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 illu...

Alan Halsey

Alan Halsey (born 1949) is a British poet. He managed The Poetry Bookshop in Hay-on-Wye from 1979 to 1997. Since 1997, Halsey has lived in Sheffield, ...