Books by Andrew Duncan

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Wide eyed and breathless, he watched as the stone surfaces changed to flowing garments and unfurled to reveal six humanoid creatures of various sizes cloaked in hooded capes. Six pairs of ember eyes glowed yellow at him with the light from his flashlight. "Emberoks!" He whispered. "A man!" two astonished voices replied. "See, I told you!" said another. "Men are not just in stories." He reached out to touch Kristofer who instinctively drew back, "A real man." "A human, to be sure." The strange creature stood at Kristofer's height. He wore a dull cloak having the appearance of weathered rock. His probing, penetrating eyes glowing yellow from the flashlight seemed to search every dark corner of Kristofer's soul. Only the peace, the soothing calm of his voice made his gaze bearable. "A man? Perhaps." Kristofer's embarrassment frowned at the Emberok's judgment. He liked these creatures better in Grandpa's stories.

This is the missing volume in Andrew Duncan's compendious survey of British poetry in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. An overview of trends during a period of more than 30 years, and a consideration of some individual poets whom Duncan feels deserve greater attention.

This volume starts from the key misrepresentation of orthodox poetry criticism, that the conservative is also the new, and sets out to define the British refusal to innovate. In the attempt to set up publicly accountable criteria for what counts as new, the book goes from the 1950s to the 1990s, identifying the stylistic innovations at each point.

The figures we have tell that the number of new books of poetry published each year nearly doubled between 1976 and 1993 and then nearly doubled again by 2000, then staying at this level. In the years 1999-2001 roughly as many books of poetry were published as in the whole of the 1970s. This is a poetry boom.

This isn't a one-volume history of post-War British poetry. Given the mass of writing about the post-War period, Duncan says, "Generally, if you read ten books on recent literary history you do find that they do all say the same things. I intend to bang on until you complain about me including too much."

Threads of Iron is Duncan's lost debut volume: not because it was never published, but because it never appeared as intended. Instead, the original was split into two and was published in two parts by Reality Street (in 1991) and by Shearsman Books (in 2000). A further section was cut and became Sound Surface (now collected in In Five Eyes).

In Five Eyes recovers two almost-lost collections of poems - Sound Surface & Surveillance and Compliance - published some 20 and 10 years ago, respectively, but which were written in the 1980s and early 1990s. Published originally in fugitive editions, these two collections fill out the picture of Duncan's earlier work.

Presents a study of contemporary British poetry. This work offers studies of some thirteen modern poets, together with a number of general essays giving an overview of events and trends in British poetry.

A collection of works, written by the author of "Switching and Main Exchange", "Pauper Estate", "Anxiety Before Entering a Room" and "The Imagination in Geometry", as well as the critical volumes, "The Failure of Conservatism in Modern British Poetry" and "Centre and Periphery".

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