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 David Kennedy was born in Leicester in 1959. He co-edited The New Poetry and is the author of New Relations: The Refashioning of British Poetry 1980-1994. His publications include: The Dice Cup, translations of Max Jacob’s prose poems with Christopher Pilling, which was shortlisted for the Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2001; and (with Rupert Loydell) the poem sequence Eight Excursions. David has published two collections with Salt: The President of Earth: New and Selected Poems (2002); and The Roads (2004) which Stride called ‘a truly fascinating and inventive book’. David is currently AHRB Fellow in Creative & Performing Arts 2004-2007 at Trinity & All Saints College, Leeds.
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- Ovid's Keyholes Ahadada Books. August, 2005.
- New Relations: The Refashioning of British Poetry 1980-1994 [Critical essays]
Bridgend: Seren, 1996.
'Full of circumstantial insights which carry critical weight . . . a competent, well-documented study which cultural historians of the Thatcher epoch will be glad to consult in future'. The Times Literary Supplement
- The Elephant's Typewriter [Poetry]
Stockton-on-Tees: Scratch, 1996.
'The influence of the New York School is unmistakeable . . . mingled with his wry, self-deprecating humour [...] Wonderfully understated [...] this little gem is a steal, well worth reading, and learning from'. Blade
- Cities [Poetry]
Sheffield: The Cherry On The Top Press, 1998.
'Kennedy has a painterly eye. He has an almost loving concern for 'things' and 'objects' in their variousness and palpability'. Prop
- Men's Talk [Poetry]
Sheffield: Tom Roder Memorial Fund, 1999.
'Kennedy's poetry is full of quirky argumentation and aleatory charm: 'A Walking Lunch', 'What Pefkos Said' and 'Horse Chestnut' are all fine and more than fine poems'. Metre
- Smoking, Eating and Speaking With The Dead [Critical essay and poems]
Sheffield: The Cherry On The Top Press, 1999.
- The Fiery Chariot; or, Some Writings upon that strange Phenomenon of Abduction by Aliens seen recently in the Americas and, in small part, in England [Artists' book]
Sheffield: The Cherry On The Top Press, 2000.
- The Dice Cup Selections from Max Jacob's Le cornet à dés [Translation]
Translated with Christopher Pilling. London: Atlas, 2000.
Shortlisted for the George Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2001
- C: or Cornell, A Circuition Around His Circumambulation [Prose]
Sheffield: West House Books, 2001.
'Kennedy lucidly explores networks of interconnected ideas: memory/past/childhood, walking/journey/place, display/possibility/projection. [...] [The book] can stand apart from the art which inspires it. It provides both a good introduction to, and gives new insights into, the work of Cornell.' New Hope International On-Line
- Four True Prophecies of the New State [Limited edition artisits' book]
Sheffield: The Cherry On The Top Press, 2001. |
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Other collaborations between Christine Kennedy and David Kennedy include:
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What Others Say
"Kennedy offers an unblinking poetics free of specious closure … The journey, as in Cavafy’s ‘Ithika’, is all. One arrives at the end of his poems … entranced"
—Poetry Review
"He has an obvious lyric talent and the poems are often artfully under-written; they have an oddly shifted sense of perspective, perhaps with just a dash of that New York hot sauce … Kennedy’s I’s … are exteriorised, ironised, not the never-ending celebrations of self that one sees so often."
—Shearsman
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