David Kennedy

David Kennedy was born in Leicester in 1959 and currently lives in Sheffield where he researched a doctorate on ideas of community in the work of Douglas Dunn, Tony Harrison and Seamus Heaney. He was co-editor of The New Poetry (Bloodaxe, 1993) and his poems, essays and reviews have been published widely in magazines in the UK and abroad. His first collection of poetry, The Elephant's Typewriter, was published by Scratch in 1996.