Tim Kendall

Tim Kendall. Courtesy The English Association.

Tim Kendall (born 1970) is an English poet, academic, editor, and literary critic.

Life

Kendall was born in 1970 in Plymouth.

He attended Christ Church, Oxford, where he read English, and from which he earned a D.Phil. in 1994.

In 1994 he founded the literary magazine Thumbscrew, which published work by poets and literary critics including Ted Hughes, Stephen Burt and Miroslav Holub, and which ran under his editorship until 2003.

He became a professor of English at the University of Exeter in 2006, and English Department Head in 2009..

He has published critical studies of Paul Muldoon, Sylvia Plath, Robert Frost , and English war poetry, .

Recognition

In 1997 he won an Eric Gregory Award for his poetry.

Publications

Poetry

• Singularities (by Polly Clark, Tim Kendall, & Graham Nelson). Oxford, UK: Hubble Press, 1997.
• Strange Land. Manchester, UK: Carcanet Press, 2005.

Non-fiction

• Paul Muldoon. Chester Springs, PA: Dufour Editions, 1996.
• Sylvia Plath: A critical study. London: Faber & Faber, 2001.
• Modern English War Poetry. Oxford, UK, & New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
• The Art of Robert Frost. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012.

Edited

• Paul Muldoon: Critical essays (edited with Peter Macdonald). Liverpool, UK: Liverpool University Press, 2004.
• The Oxford Handbook of British and Irish War Poetry. Oxford, UK, & New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
• Poetry of the First World War: An anthology. Oxford, UK, & New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Tim Kendall on the poets of World War One a century later

Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.

See also

• List of British poets
• List of literary critics

External links

Prose

•  Kendall on Thumbscrew

Books

• Tim Kendall at Amazon.ca

About

• Professor Tim Kendall at the University of Exeter