Tim Kendall Explained

Tim Kendall (born 1970) is an English poet, editor and critic.[1] He was born in Plymouth.[1] In 1994 he co-founded the magazine Thumbscrew, which published work by poets including Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney and Miroslav Holub, and which ran under his editorship until 2003.[2] In 1997 he won an Eric Gregory Prize for his poetry.[3] His first collection of poems, Strange Land, was published in 2005.[4]

In 2006 he became Professor of English at the University of Exeter.[5]

He has published critical studies of Paul Muldoon, Sylvia Plath, and most recently, English war poetry.[6] He was heavily involved in literary events marking the centenary of the outbreak of World War I.[7]

Works

Television

The Poet who Loved the War (BBC4, 2014)

References

  1. http://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?owner_id=374 Carcanet Press
  2. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/mar/12/featuresreviews.guardianreview18 David Morley, "The long game", The Guardian, 12 March 2005
  3. http://www.societyofauthors.net/soa/page_id_sub.php4?pid=30&parentid=7&par_nm=Prizes,%20grants%20and%20awards Society of Authors
  4. Web site: David Morley . David Morley (poet) . The long game . . 1 June 2024 . 12 March 2005.
  5. https://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/english/staff/kendall/ University of Exeter: English
  6. Modern English War Poetry. Oxford: Oxford University, 2006.
  7. http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/author/tkendall/ University of Oxford: World War I Centenary

Bibliography

Thumbscrew