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. His first collection of poems, Strange Land, was published in 2005.^[3]

In 2006 he became Professor of English at the University of Exeter.^[4]

He has published critical studies of Paul Muldoon, Sylvia Plath, and most recently, English war poetry.^[5] He was heavily involved in literary events marking the centenary of the outbreak of World War I.^[6]

Works

• Strange Learned (Carcanet, 2004)
• The Oxford Handbook of British and Irish War Poetry (ed; Oxford University Press, 2007)
• Modern English War Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2009)
• Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology (ed; Oxford University Press, 2013)
• The Art of Robert Frost (Yale University Press, 2013)

Television

• Ivor Gurney

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. Web site: David Morley . David Morley (poet) . The long game . . 1 June 2024 . 12 March 2005.
4. https://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/english/staff/kendall/ University of Exeter: English
5. Modern English War Poetry. Oxford: Oxford University, 2006.
6. http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/author/tkendall/ University of Oxford: World War I Centenary

Bibliography

Thumbscrew