David Kennedy
	David Kennedy edits the magazine of innovative poetry and poetics The Paper, the small press The Cherry On The Top Press, and publishes widely on contemporary British poetry. He is currently AHRC Fellow in Creative & Performing Arts 2004-2007 at Trinity & All Saints (Leeds) where he writes and researches contemporary elegy.
Recordings The poems in The Archive of the Now are the products of an AHRC Creative & Performing Arts Fellowship entitled 'Reviving Elegy - towards a distinct contemporary poetry of private and public mourning'. The Fellowship explores whether it is possible to write a contemporary poetry of mourning that is distinct from both the tendency to present anecdotal remembrance as elegy and the generally elegiac tone of much contemporary poetry. 'Calendar' 'Dr Kennedy's Country Dream' 'Egyptian Elegy for my Father' 'My Father's Death' 'Near Death' 'Poem Begun in a Small Notebook' 'Postcards of Penthesilea' 'The Bombs, July 2005' 'The Waters' Bibliography - Poetry The Elephant's Typewriter (Scratch, 1996) Men's Talk (Tom Roder Prize, 1998) Cities (The Cherry On The Top Press, 1999) Four True Prophecies of the New State (The Cherry On The Top Press, 1999) Cornell: A Circuition Around His Circumambulation (West House Books, 2001) The President of Earth: New and Selected Poems (Salt, 2002) Eight Excursions [with Rupert Loydell] (The Cherry On The Top Press, 2003) The Roads (Salt, 2004)        Bibliography - Criticism, Translations, etc Max Jacob: The Dice Cup Part 1 [translation with Christopher Pilling] (Atlas, 2000) Additional Apparitions: Poetry, Performance & Site Specificity [co-edited with Keith Tuma] (The Cherry On The Top Press, 2002) Douglas Dunn (Northcote House, 2006) Necessary Steps: Essays on Poetry, Elegy, Walking, Spirit (Stride 2006) [As editor] Elegy (Routledge New Critical Idiom, 2008) Bibliography - Online Works Evidence of the Enemy: Remote Viewing -- collaboration with Christine Kennedy Ovid's Keyholes -- collaboration with Christine Kennedy Web Works 'Minster': poetry sequence inspired by masons' marks at Southwell Minster 'On Reading John Kinsella's Peripheral Light' 'Fabula Rasa' and 'Found on a Flipchart' poems included in A West House Anthology, edited by Alan Halsey 'Mourning After: Writing Elegies in the 21st Century' critical essay and poem with a response by Peter Middleton 'Nine Poetics' Extract from 'Postcards of Penthesilea' - i.m. Nicholas Zurbrugg 1947-2001 Published in The Roads (Salt 2004) * categories leak disco-dada it's how they do what they are videopoesia sonora spill possibility writers as impatient readers spill complexity philosophers as failed artists and the inverse is obvious cut down cut in cut up your sixteen letters leak so many things we saw you were leak 'gush' spill 'grin' as in fan as critic as fan spill 'linch' as in pin as in hyphen visions future in a prefix inter poly multi extra cut in cut up cut down * your names leak 'grains' as in becoming forms your sense of limit risked that swing between then out where art dreams after us beyond us where most reward's in movement take a car ride down an unfinished road cut in cut up cut down now you are thought in the heads of everyone you met now you are code on the net your thoughts html'd and uploaded into that perpetual present we print you off and the date's always the day before tomorrow yearning for the future cut down cut in cut up Review quotes "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 "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 "This is a truly fascinating and inventive book, not least for its style and variety, but also for its accomplished poetic, its mature sensibility and its great humour." Stride on The Roads. "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." New Hope International On-Line on Cornell "[The poems] have something of the magic of Ron Padgett's exquisite corpse-styled enjambments--or collaging--of disparate moments. But Kennedy's are more naturalised, more seamless. They have something of Tate's and Russell Edson's virtuosity--but seem less to court our applause, less tricksy in fact and far more interesting and memorable." Jacket on The Roads By downloading files from this site, you agree to our Terms and Conditions