Poetry. This book forms the second half of Andrew Duncan's long-discussed and elusive manuscript Threads of Iron, which was the subject of an extended analysis by J.H. Pyrnne in 1982. In PN Review, Geoffrey Ward called it the great unpublished book of the '80s, the recipient of more agonized and extensive debate than many published collections of poetry. J.H. Prynne commented, I am surprised to find how steadily I admire this work and how compelling I find the force which it claims.... Containing poems of great beauty and thematic range, this collection still bears out the praise delivered by Prynne seventeen years ago.