Wish I Could Be There: Xexoxial Editions and the Shaped Reading Series Co-host a Reading By ALAN HALSEY and GERALDINE MONK

The Xexoxial/Quincunx Shaped Reading at

The Project Lodge
817 E. Johnson St.Madison, WI
October 23rd at 7pm

Geraldine Monk is an English poet whose first publications appeared  in
the 1970s with Writers Forum and Pirate Press. Her major volumes  of
poetry include Interregnum (Creation Books 1995), Noctivagations  2001
and Escafeld Hangings 2005 (both published by West House  Books). Her
Selected Poems was published in 2003 (Salt Publishing).  A collection of
essays on her poetry, The Salt Companion to  Geraldine Monk edited by
Scott Thurston, appeared in 2007.

Alan Halsey's books include Marginalien (Five Seasons 2005), Not
Everything Remotely: Selected Poems 1978-2005 (Salt 2006), Lives of  the
Poets (Five Seasons 2009) and Term as in Aftermath (Ahadada  2009). He is
the editor of West House Books and ran The Poetry  Bookshop in Hay-on-Wye
1979-1995. 'With an antiquarian gentility,  but a contemporary nous,
Halsey mixes his materials until the work  is emptied of even a post-modern grin' (Nikki Santilli).

A donation will be requested. There will be home-made organic wine.