Contact Details

Professor Tim Kendall
	Head of the Department of English
	Department(s): English
	Room: 300 (Queen's Building)
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Research Interests

I would be happy to supervise research relating to any of the following areas:

20th-Century Poetry

I have written mainly on twentieth-century poetry from Britain, Ireland and America. My most recent publications have focused on war poetry: Modern English War Poetry, a monograph, appeared from Oxford University Press in 2006; and in early 2007 The Oxford Handbook of British and Irish War Poetry, a 37-essay collection which I edited, came from the same publisher. Previous projects include studies of Sylvia Plath and Paul Muldoon.

Currently I am working on two projects for Yale University Press. The first is a study of the American poet Robert Frost, and the second an anthology of the poetry of Frost and Edward Thomas. Also under contract are a book on war poetry for OUP's Very Short Introductions series, an anthology of First World War poetry for Oxford World's Classics, and (with Philip Lancaster) a three-volume edition of Ivor Gurney's Complete Poems for Oxford English Texts.  

My blog on war poetry is at http://war-poets.blogspot.com

William Golding

I have a long-standing interest in the work of William Golding. I will be co-organising the Centenary Conference on Golding at Tremough (four miles from Golding's home at Perranarworthal) in September 2011. I have set up a blog on Golding: http://golding2011.blogspot.com

South-West Writing

I am Director of the Centre for South West Writing. The aim of the Centre is to promote study of the region's authors by encouraging scholarly work, acquiring manuscripts to add to existing materials, and organising conferences. The university has major archival holdings in writers such as Daphne Du Maurier, Ted Hughes, Agatha Christie, John Betjeman, Frances Bellerby, Patricia Beer, Charles Causley, and others.

Publications

Books

Paul Muldoon. Seren (U.K.) and Dufour (U.S.A.), 1996.

Sylvia Plath: A Critical Study. Faber, 2001.

Strange Land. Poems. Oxford Poets/Carcanet, 2005.

Modern English War Poetry. OUP, 2006.

Edited Collections

Paul Muldoon: Critical Essays (edited with Peter McDonald). Liverpool University Press, 2004.

The Oxford Handbook of British and Irish War Poetry. OUP, 2007.

Essays

‘Leavetakings and Homecomings: Derek Mahon's Belfast'. Eire-Ireland XXIV (4), Winter 1994, 101-116.

‘Parallel to the Parallel Realm: Paul Muldoon's Madoc - A Mystery'. Irish University Review, Autumn-Winter 1995, 232-241.

‘"Joy, Fire, Joy": Blaise Pascal's "Memorial" and the Visionary Explorations of T. S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley and William Golding'. Literature and Theology, 11 (3), Sept 1997, 299-312.

‘Inhabited by a Cry: the Birth and Rebirth of Ariel'. Kunapipi XX (3), 1998/9, 128-144.

‘Sylvia Plath's "Piranha Religion"'. Essays in Criticism 49 (1), January 1999, 44-61.

‘From the Bottom of the Pool: Sylvia Plath's Last Poems'. English 49 (193), Spring 2000, 23-38.

‘An Enormous Yes?: The Redress of Poetry'. In Tony Curtis (ed.), The Art of Seamus Heaney (Seren, 4th edition), 2001, 227-239.

‘"I See Men as Trees Suffering: The Vision of Keith Douglas'. British Academy Thomas Chatterton Lecture, 2001. The Proceedings of the British Academy, vol. 117, 2002, 429-443.

‘Kipling, Golding, and the Seeing Feet'. Notes & Queries 248 (3), September 2003, 338-339.

‘"The Pity of War"?'. PN Review 30 (1), September-October 2003, 30-32.

‘Keith Douglas and Self-Elegy'. Essays in Criticism 53 (4), October 2003, 366-383.

‘"Fighting Back Over the Same Ground": Ted Hughes and War'. The Yale Review 93 (1), January 2005, 87-102.

 ‘Paul Muldoon's Twins'. Paul Muldoon, ed. Elmer Kennedy-Andrews (Colin Smythe), 2006, 71-84.

‘Thomas Hardy's Witness'. War Poetry Review, 2007, 7-23.

‘Against "Contemporary Poetry"'. PN Review 179, vol 34, no. 3, Jan/Feb 2008, 24-27.

‘One Another's Guide: Robert Frost and Edward Thomas'. Dymock Poets and Friends 8, 2009, pp. 1-14.

 ‘Gurney and Fritz'. Essays in Criticism LIX, no. 2, April 2009, pp. 142-156.

Journal Editor

I founded and edited the poetry magazine Thumbscrew from 1994 to 2003, publishing new work by Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, Anne Stevenson, Fleur Adcock, Michael Longley, Carol Rumens, Charles Wright, etc. - http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/index.asp?id=18

Poems and Reviews

Poems and reviews in the TLS, The Guardian, LRB, Atlanta Review, Paris Review, Poetry Review, PN Review, The Independent, MHRA, etc.

Blogs

War Poetry: http://war-poets.blogspot.com.

William Golding: http://golding2011.blogspot.com

Teaching

During 2009-10, I will be offering a new level 3 module titled ‘Poetry from Britain and Ireland, 1914-1928'. I also contribute lectures to three team-taught modules: ‘The Shock of the New, 1900-1953', ‘Acts of Writing: 1954-‘, and ‘Past and Present II'.