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ANDREW DUNCAN CATALOGUE OF POEMS
with places of publication


German Hotel 1977-78 (published in Ochre #6, 1978)

list of "Threads of Iron" (1980-81)


Endless highway (ametrical foreword) (Odyssey 20)
A house on the endless highway (Cut memories)
White block (Cut memories)
Almond wind (published Poetical Histories 1990)
A flock of deer by moonlight (cut memories)
In my time of dying (published Equofinality 1981)(Cut memories)
Sympathetic (Cut memories)
Perfect skin ("")
Sickle moon ("")
Heavy wind ("")
Circulation("")
Photo flakes falling ("")
The winnowing ("")
Words versus buildings ("")
To an artist, having died in his dreams (shearsman #35)
The Gallae
Heavy metal (Cut memories)
Pablo Neruda
On first publication
The academy
Trotsky from Petrograd
Office boy
Literacy (Cut memories)
The tablets of servitude
Flight (Cut memories)
Flayed inside (Cut memories)
Oreads
Schonheit schonheit
Tamur Jan (Cut memories)
Piccadilly Saturday night (Cut memories)
In Charnwood (published Straight Lines 1983)
L'Algerie (published Equofinality 1981) (Cut memories)
Dhofar (published Equofinality 1986)
Passover(published West Africa Review 1983) (Cut memories)
Turkish music (published Grosseteste Review 1984)
Falkenhain (Cut memories)
Builders in winter
British steel
Nationality (Cut memories)
Britanskaya SSR
Lusitanian angel
John Riley (cut memories)
Deutsche Industrienorm (published E.finality 1981) (C memories)
Yellow ice, Enfield (Equofinality 1981) (Cut memories)
Rats and monkeys (Cut memories)
Laughing man (Poetical Histories 1990)
Engineer grade II (Equofinality 1981)
In the red grove (E.finality 1981)
Machina carnis (Cut memories)
Visitors to art galleries (Grosseteste Review 1984; Cut memories)
Poet and schizophrenic (Grosseteste 1984)
Dead wind (published Equofinality 1991)
Fen landscape (Cut memories)
Spirit of the age (Cut memories)
Black pane and decor (Cut memories)
everything not in "Cut memories" was published in "Switching and Main Exchange"
(55 poems)

"Skeleton looking at Chinese pictures"

1983-87

Gwion/the fetch
The lysergist
Gem of the 5 senses
Spectacle
Griffin carved in walrus ivory (? First Offense 6?)
Butterflies woken in winter
Prometheus 1
2
3
Cimmerian song (First offense #6, 1990)
In blue light (Angel Exhaust 10, 1994)
Master of arts
In the Ethnographical museum (possibly West Africa Magazine 1983?)
Nomad carpets (Fragmente 1991)
Repton crypt (First Offense #6)
30 frames a second
Deflected motion
Mythological poem
Natural cave on Beacon Hill
Cinema (Terrible Work, 1995; Conductors of Chaos)
Shape scored in earth
Onshore current (Equofinality 1986)
The smith (draft)
A tale of jealousy
Dryads
Gardens of the night
Liberation (China)
Those are jewels that were his eyes (Archeus, 1989)
Shapeshifting and mismatches (Equofinality, 1986)
Night train (shearsman #35)
The place of punishment
Out on the strip (suppressed/ rerun)
The august sage
Vanished tribe
Metallic autumn (Equofinality 1991)
June sun (Poetical histories, 1990)
Light (First offense #6, 1990)
Furs and masks (Salt 8/9, 1996)
About living opposite Brick Lane brewery (shearsman #35)
Torrent at Ceronda
Call from Ottawa
Torn mirrors
Get on the phone
Stubble fires
The funeral of Harlequin
Rasengang
Some Chinese characters in my hand (Fragmente 1991?)
Into the day (prose poems) (not included)
Venaria
The contention of summer and winter (lost)
Solea (at Superga)
Ego sum natus gelido ex viscere tellus
Hic jacet Borbonius heros (shearsman #35)
Conversation in the desert
(57 poems)
Black herald


SURVEILLANCE AND COMPLIANCE 1987-92


1. Roots of a revolution (Memes 1991)
2. Faculty of Reason (Ten British poets; Conductors of Chaos)
3. Personality inventory 1978 (removed)
4. Heat loss/ surveillance in a blind eye
5. The scream/exit line ( Garuda #1)
6. Margery Daw (shearsman 26, 1996)
7. The Gram (removed; published as pamphlet by Short Run 1995)
8. Services: polyptych (7 poems) (Parataxis 8/9, 1996)
9. The Year Zero
10. Adjusting the Skill Mix (infolio, 1991?; Conductors of Chaos)
11. Oliver Evans, the American system
12. The Brig at Torthorwald (shearsman 26, 1996)
13. At Camden Lock (oasis, 1994)
14. Shiny circuitry (Salt 9, 1996)
15. Favourite colour is Werner von Braun (renamed to: Undercapitalized)
16. Over and Over (shearsman 26, 1996)
17. Fragments of the Above (shearsman 27, 1996)
18-20. dialogue poems (Oasis 69, 1994)
-surface of denial
-part patterns on grey threads
-compliance
21. Writing on the paper of you (10 British poets)
22. Hallucination and mutilation:
a. Psilocybin
b. The crystalline structure of North London
23. The Conversation (shearsman 26, 1996) renamed "Acoustic dynamics"
24. In blue light (Angel Exhaust Ten, 1993)
25. The queasy eye of the aesthete
26. Personality inventory Jan 88



new poems: The policy of weakness; (Salt; shearsman 27)
Party fears
rewrite in 2001 added: "An archive of 300 poems" "If we were immortal, if we were not there" "Objects under the voice"; and 2 new parts of "Hallucination and mutilation".

List of out-takes from "Surveillance and Compliance"

two variants of this device
sampling
At Cumae (Oasis, 64, 1994; and Stride anthology)
the Personality (Terrible Work 7)
Ash keel
return of the repressed
When the levee breaks (mixed into "Ac. dynamics")
Rain (the very thing that makes you rich)
Eating (self not self)
cyclical stability
Virtual (Terrible Work 7)
the spider's web
the Pearl



SOUND SURFACE Sounds and spaces. re-edit 14.3.92

the sounds are:

1. Suspended section
2. Hanging around
3. Stikhomythia (Meet a new god)
4. Circular
5. Clipping and Shear (Conductors of Chaos)
6. consciousness from lack (Conductors of Chaos)
7. the vocalisation of want
8. verbal hierarchies and the DS
9. airstream
10. arms around the moon
11. Eve's voice; the glass palace (Jadis j'ai cru) (Memes 1992)
12. moaning at midnight
13. the binder, the looser
14. the doll's house.
15. A strolling player (memes?)
16. Get out of my head
17. trophies on rage spikes
18. the first flaw
19. Stand up and vote.
20. Eating metal drinking gasoline
count in printed version is wrong

list of uncollected poems since closing off "Skeleton".

Alan land (infolio 91)
In high places (Stride anth. 96 and Terrible Work 5, 1995; and Conductors of Chaos)
Gavrilo Princip (10 British poets)
Headboard
Swimming in spirals
A failure to console (shearsman #35)
transparent radiation (as part of the CCCP 1 programme, 1991)
Aix en Provence (in Stride anthology, 1996) (and shearsman, 97?)
3 kurgans (in Grille #2)
Perm no.10
A bruise
There is no more society (published in 13 Wasted Years)
Male nude in interior (9 poems) (Active in Airtime #2, 1993?)
From the kitchen floor (parts published as pamphlet from microbrigade)
(other parts untreated)
Chronique mondaine of the 5th Poetry Conference in a regional style (Salt 8; SubVoicive programme July 1996)



Alien skies


parts published in The CCCP programme 1991 and in 10 British poets.
not all these parts published in the pamphlet Alien Skies

Walking on glare
The place of confinement
Mani in chains
Caeth
The scanner of an empty sky
Overflight
Novena formosarum mulierum
The eyes of Leichhardt (CCCP conference programme, 3, 1993?)
The fallen stone tells the poet how to write (10 British Poets)
Spurn not against a castle wall
Going down in the falls
Alien skies
The clauses of the empire of sound
Racetrack of the barbarian alae
The star catalogue of Ulugh Beg
The structure of gravity in near space
Vernadsky
Alluvial fallout
Iridium mirror
At the Glass Fells
In the garden
Martyrdom and triumph of Sergei Korolev (shearsman #35; and new Kinsella-Mengham anthology)


Pauper Estate draft C 1999


1 The transformation of everyday life
2 Shake
Snow-puffed plumage (Tenth Muse, 2000)
The speaking head
3 At the Lido (Gare du Nord, 1, 1997)
4 least energy structures (Tenth Muse, 2000)
5 Glass of equable temper (Tenth Muse, 99)
Virtual machines
Instructions to an actress
8 The Gaumont Site
9 Five eyes are fiver than two
10 adesso non posso
11 Pining and Peaked
Looks like luxury and feels like a disease
12 swallow this
18 Shape the shape of shared space (Tenth Muse, 99)
Five eyes are fiver than two
20 the shield of Perseus (also in the new anthology)
16 Collection towards the definition of a word
21 commerce and local advantage (Gare du Nord, 1998)
6 The technique of visualising
Burnt eye
15 Three records of the floating life

(draft A 1996-7)
7 Written on the stanchion of the railway bridge (oasis, 1998?)
14 The key to the boxes at Coutts'
17 retail opportunities




new poems 1999-2000


"The imaginary in geometry"

The ruins of Guldursun
The ghost of fusion (to be in new Arc/Salt anthology)
Deep Dish
Dashed
Spectrum flight
Building codes in Jerusalem (to be in 10th Muse)
Greenland
The projection of England (Anglophilia, a Romance of the Docks)
radio vortex (painted & Spoken)
Les Paul's garage studio (painted & Spoken)
Wonders of classification (promised for 10th Muse)
On the beach at Aberystwyth (shearsman)
A Virtuality

Savage Survivals Amid Modern Suavity(Poems hors cycle)

Swanning with the Bishop
Andy-the-German servant of two masters (to be in new anthology; and in CCCP Review with a page missing)
The Crossing (fragments) (incl. The Pageant)
Reichs-Denkmal-Vorlage (? incomplete)
Blauer Reiter at Ducketts Common
Rhythmic Blind Spot
Visualising corporate structure


Weapons Form with Music

published entire in Oasis (december 2000)
comprising:
'bring me an ink tablet'
'Blue sword in white hand'
'we turned the jingling horses' heads for home'
5 Elements Ninja
'heroes in a bar'
Scathach and the Striped Ones
'a poofy bar'
'From zenith to pupil'
hermits and heretics
the hand of Claverhouse
weapons form with invective
drownings at Wigtown
Highlanders at Tilbury
land and lordship with Ronnie Laing
The neurotic swordsman
In the Job Centre
Nomos and daily forms
Bodiless forms of the Internal Arts canon
At Castle Sweeney

(cut) Acallamh answers