Born in London in 1949, Halsey ran the Poetry Bookshop in Hay-on-Wye for almost twenty years before marrying fellow poet, Geraldine Monk, and moving to Sheffield, where they still live. He works as a painter, collagist and book illustrator/designer, all of which inform his prose poetry. Halsey's work has moved progressively towards the graphic and one recent major project, Memory Screen, a text-graphic, was shown at the Bury Text Festival in 2005 - this was included via CD-rom in his last book of collected poems, Marginalien (West House Books, 2006). Other works include Not Everything Remotely: Selected Poems 1978-2004 (Salt, 2006).
