Tim Kendall
English poet, editor and critic
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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
- Sylvia Plath: A Critical Guide (Faber & Faber, 2001)
- 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)
