Tim Kendall

{{Short description|English poet, editor and critic}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Use British English|date=September 2017}} '''Tim Kendall''' (born 1970) is an English poet, editor and critic.<ref name=carcanet>[http://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?owner_id=374 Carcanet Press]</ref> He was born in Plymouth.<ref name=carcanet/> 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.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/mar/12/featuresreviews.guardianreview18 David Morley, "The long game", The Guardian, 12 March 2005]. Accessed 13 October 2015</ref> In 1997 he won an Eric Gregory Prize for his poetry.<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20070516221856/http://www.societyofauthors.net/soa/page_id_sub.php4?pid=30&parentid=7&par_nm=Prizes,%20grants%20and%20awards Society of Authors]}}</ref> His first collection of poems, ''Strange Land'', was published in 2005.<ref>{{cite web |author1=David Morley |author1-link=David Morley (poet) |title=The long game |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/mar/12/featuresreviews.guardianreview18 |website=The Guardian |access-date=1 June 2024 |date=12 March 2005}}</ref>

In 2006 he became Professor of English at the University of Exeter.<ref>[https://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/english/staff/kendall/ University of Exeter: English]. Accessed 12 October 2015</ref>

He has published critical studies of Paul Muldoon, Sylvia Plath, and most recently, English war poetry.<ref>''Modern English War Poetry.'' Oxford: Oxford University, 2006.</ref> He was heavily involved in literary events marking the centenary of the outbreak of World War I.<ref>[http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/author/tkendall/ University of Oxford: World War I Centenary]. Accessed 13 October 2015</ref>

==Works== *''Sylvia Plath: A Critical Guide'' (Faber & Faber, 2001) *''Strange Land'' (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)

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==Bibliography== [http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/index.asp?id=18 Thumbscrew]

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