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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 working as a specialist bookseller and publishing West House Books.Alan Halsey founded West House Books in 1994 to publish contemporary poetry and poetry-related work. In recent years he has managed it in partnership with his wife the British poet Geraldine Monk.