Tim Kendall

English poet, editor and critic

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 latest book of poems, Strange Land, appeared in 2005.^{[citation needed]}

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

^ ^a ^b Carcanet Press
^ David Morley, "The long game", The Guardian, 12 March 2005. Accessed 13 October 2015
^ Society of Authors Archived 16 May 2007 at the Wayback Machine
^ University of Exeter: English. Accessed 12 October 2015
^ Modern English War Poetry. Oxford: Oxford University, 2006.
^ University of Oxford: World War I Centenary. Accessed 13 October 2015