Duncan Montgomery is a wood engraver from the North-East of England, now based in London, whose work has been shown at the RA Summer Exhibition, Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, and the Society of Wood Engravers' Annual Exhibition. 

 

He became interested in wood engraving while studying early modern print culture and subsequently taught himself to engrave. Recent work includes a series of prints of Parson's Pleasure, a lost male bathing place in Oxford and commissioned work for a range of clients including the London School of Architecture and Faber & Faber. In 2025 his work was featured alongside quotes from Faber & Faber poets old and new on a national campaign of billboards for National Poetry Day. For more information on that campaign please see his article on the Faber journal here.

 

He is currently illustrating a book for Nomad Letterpress, having illustrated a book for Hand & Eye Editions in 2025. 

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His poetry has been published in PN Review, Carcanet New Poetries VI, the Sunday Times and Prototype 6.