# Tim Kendall

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'''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](/source/Plymouth).<ref name=carcanet/> In 1994 he co-founded the magazine ''Thumbscrew'', which published work by poets including [Ted Hughes](/source/Ted_Hughes), [Seamus Heaney](/source/Seamus_Heaney) and [Miroslav Holub](/source/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](/source/Professor) of English at the [University of Exeter](/source/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](/source/Paul_Muldoon), [Sylvia Plath](/source/Sylvia_Plath), and most recently, English [war poetry](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Robert_Frost)'' (Yale University Press, 2013)

==Television==
*''[Ivor Gurney](/source/Ivor_Gurney): The Poet who Loved the War'' (BBC4, 2014)

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

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