J Kendall

I am a Reader in English and Creative Writing at Salford. I have an MA in English from Cambridge university and in Creative Writing from Lancaster university. My PhD was on the process of poetic composition with special reference to Edward Thomas, I moved to University of Salford in 2006 to help develop the new BA in English and Creative Writing and went on to become Programme leader of the BA in 2008. I have acted as Research Lead for the English and Creative Writing Group and now lead on the MA in Creative Writing: Innovation and Experiment. I specialise in poetry, poetry composition and visual text both as academic and creative practitioner, but have a background as a playwright and short story writer and have won awards in both these areas. I have published four volumes of poetry, with two of my poems featuring on the EDEXCEL A level and AS syllabus. I have also published two research monographs as well as many articles, and have won a number of awards for both my creative and her academic work, including featuring twice in Guardian round ups of best books of the year. I guest-edited the European Journal of English Studies special Visual Text issue, together with my colleague Glyn White. I am active in collaborative translations of poetry from a number of languages, including Russian, Japanese, Romanian and Hungarian, and was appointed the incredible edible Todmorden poet laureate for several years. I am currently translating riddles from Old English into modern English and working on a monograph for Edinburgh University Press on the thickness of language and related visual text effects as this pertains to translation and creative composition processes.