Career
The author of at least seven books of poetry, including Anxiety Before Entering a Room Selected Poems 1977-1999 (Salt Publishing, 2001). Andrew Duncan studied as a mediaevalist and started his writing career in punk "fanzines". He has been publishing poetry since the late 1970s, serving as the editor of the magazine Angel Exhaust.
Duncan worked as a labourer (in England and Germany) after leaving school, and subsequently as a project planner with a telecomms manufacturer (1978-1987), and as a programmer for the Stock Exchange (1988-1991).
He also publishes a website called pinko.org in which he aims to "verbalize knowledge which a lot of people on the scene share – not really to uncover completely new information".
