Bøker av Andrew Duncan

This new poetry is saturated in folklore and myth. The glass paintings are a distribution of cultured art motifs to rural households, patterns copied onto glass with feathers or brushes made of marten-hair. They are an expression of humility towards the illiterate. The idea of cultural difference being the effect of distribution technology was illustrated by the pedlars who carried the glass panes around the villages of central Europe. The interest in shopping follows a previous and prolonged interest in manufacturing and production, completing the sequence. Reminiscences of childhood and the wreck of the great High Street department stores around 2020 combine in a personal mythology of grand motifs and elaborate ruins. This volume is a new start after a long period of silence and begins with an inventory of concrete facts around the poet, in his home in Nottingham, close to where he grew up. One theme is defeaturing, the recreation of court and metropolitan art forms in a simpler manner. Radiant messages broken up by distance.Comments on On the Margins of Great Empires (2018):"For the last 30 years, Andrew Duncan has patiently traced alternative wavelengths, to and from the unevocable, irreconcilable and the impossible."-Kevin Nolan "Andrew Duncan [is] a writer whose poetry, criticism and magazine editing must make him one of the most vital and questing of today's authors." - David Hackbridge Johnson, The High Window"Andrew Duncan's selected poems from 1978 to 2003 [is] an excited, hugely wide-ranging poetry soaring from the star and jewel riches of the Asian margins down to the brick offices in which are fates are problematized. Quite cryptic but never shirking the open and articulate cry." -Peter Riley, Fortnightly Review

A science fiction novel. With action and adventure. Has a spiritual context. For older teen/ adults.Synopsis: Myles Carver , theology student, is troubled by a recurring dream in which he sees a crashed aircraft with the passengers and crew scrambling out.He is convinced the dream carries a supernatural message. He makes a startling discovery that 5 decades before that plane had mysteriously vanished linked to an awesome mystery kept hidden in secret government files; and to the disappearance of a team of scientists secretly testing a device capable of reaching the stars.Could his destiny be somehow entwined with theirs?Perplexed, Carver probes further. Believing that with God anything is possible, he begins by faith a seemingly impossible mission....

The latest in a series of critical works where Andrew Duncan examines the development of British poetry from an unpredictable standpoint, and with a raised eyebrow. As ever with this author, a valuable counterweight to received opinion.

London is a walker's paradise. In 30 original walks, distinguished historian Andrew Duncan reveals the true heart of one of the world's greatest capital cities.

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.

The story of poetry since 1960 is largely of people rebelling against what was there in the 1950s. But another story is about poets who didn't revolt against that, but went on with it - developing it organically.

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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Objective-C is an exciting and dynamic approach to C-based object-oriented programming; it's the approach adopted by Apple as the foundation for programming under Mac OS X, a Unix-based operating system gaining wide acceptance among programmers and other technologists. Objective-C is easy to learn and has a simple elegance that is a welcome breath of fresh air after the abstruse and confusing C++. To help you master the fundamentals of this language, you'll want to keep the Objective-C Pocket Reference close at hand. This small book contains a wealth of valuable information to speed you over the learning curve.In this pocket reference, author Andrew Duncan provides a quick and concise introduction to Objective-C for the experienced programmer. In addition to covering the essentials of Objective-C syntax, Andrew also covers important faces of the language such as memory management, the Objective-C runtime, dynamic loading, distributed objects, and exception handling.O'Reilly's Pocket References have become a favorite among programmers everywhere. By providing important details in a succinct, well-organized format, these handy books deliver just what you need to complete the task at hand. When you've reached a sticking point in your work and need to get to a solution quickly, the new Objective-C Pocket Reference is the book you'll want to have.