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]

• 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)

• Ivor Gurney: The Poet who Loved the War (BBC4, 2014)

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