Thank you for this. This is very sad news.
My thoughts are with Christine.
Robert
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Wolfgang Görtschacher
Sent: 03 April 2017 14:11
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Subject: David Kennedy (1959-2017)
David sadly passed away 10 days ago.
For those of you who did not know him - this is from the Royal Literary Fund website
Wolfgang
David Kennedy was a poet and editor and a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Hull. He was born in Leicester in 1959, and had a degree in English and European
Literature from the University of Warwick. His PhD, from the University of Sheffield, was for research into ideas of community and nation in the poetry of Douglas Dunn, Tony Harrison and Seamus Heaney. David worked for over a decade as a purchasing manager
in manufacturing industry before becoming a full-time writer.
He was co-editor of the best-selling Bloodaxe anthology of British & Irish poetry of the 1980s and 1990s
The New Poetry (1993) and was the author of the critical book New Relations: The Refashioning of British Poetry 1980-1994
(1996). David was a regular reviewer for magazines such as Poetry Review, PN Review and
Stand. He published three collections of poetry with Salt, most recently
The Devil’s Bookshop (2007) and he published a book-length sequence about Cézanne entitled
The Apple and the Mountain with Shearsman Books. His critical books include
The Ekphrastic Encounter in Contemporary British Poetry and Elsewhere (Ashgate 2012) and the co-authored study
Women’s Experimental Poetry in Britain 1970-2010: Body, Time and Locale (Liverpool University Press, 2013).
David was the author of the RLF’s essay writing guide.