On the Margins of Great Empires: Selected Poems

About Andrew Duncan

Andrew Duncan was born in 1956 and brought up in the Midlands. He worked as a labourer (in England and Germany) after leaving school and subsequently as a project planner with a telecoms manufacturer (1978-87) and as a programmer for the Stock Exchange (1988-91). He now lives in Nottingham after some years as a civil servant. He has been publishing poetry since his Cambridge days in the late 70s including In a German Hotel Anxiety Before Entering a Room Sound Surface Surveillance and Compliance. He is one of the editors of Angel Exhaust and has translated a lot of modern German poetry. He has published a good deal of literary criticism in recent years above all The Failure of Conservatism in Modern British Poetry; Centre and Periphery in Modern British Poetry and other volumes mostly published by Shearsman.