Andrew Duncan was born in 1956, and brought up in the Midlands, “in an atmosphere of technological optimism and class levelling which the South succeeded in reversing thereafter.” He worked as a labourer (in England and Germany) after leaving school, and subsequently as a project planner with a telecomms manufacturer (1978‚Äì87), and as a programmer for the Stock Exchange (1988‚Äì91).
SynopsisNamed for a Sonny Boy Williamson song, this is a collection of interviews with 20 modern poets. The subjects are Kelvin Corcoran, Simon Smith, Michael Haslam, David Chaloner, Elisabeth Bletsoe,...
SynopsisThe background to Origins of the Underground is really the story of how British poets became intellectuals. As they retreated from inherited and fixed value systems, they had to think...
The Failure of Conservatism in Modern British Poetry
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SynopsisHow modern is modern? How does the new come to be the surface which makes the personality visible? How does an offset become a peak? One of the key differences...