From 1997, Halsey lived in Sheffield, working as a specialist bookseller and publishing West House Books.

[6] Alan Halsey's collection of poems include Five Years Out (1989), Wittgenstein's Devil (2000), Marginalien (2005) and Not Everything Remotely (2006).

In addition, his prose works include The Text of Shelley's Death (1995) and A Robin Hood Book (1996).

Among his collaborative works are Fit to Print[7] with Karen Mac Cormack (1998), Days of '49 with Gavin Selerie (1999) and Quaoar with Ralph Hawkins and Kelvin Corcoran (2006).

His graphics have been widely published and he was the illustrator of several books including Kelvin Corcoran's Your Thinking Tracts or Nations (2001) and Gavin Selerie's Le Fanu's Ghost (2006).