Tony Kendrew went to school in England, where his early attempts at writing were full of mountains, rivers, birds and flowers.
He traveled widely before moving to the States in the early eighties and lived in Northern California for thirty years before moving to Arkansas in 2021. He recently settled in Costa Rica, surrounded by fresh imagery for his continuing love affair with nature. This usually finds its way into his poems, together with the big question he likes to address:
What on earth are we doing here?
Tony started reading his work at writers’ groups and locally at cafés and gatherings in the nineties, and published a collection of his poems on CD in 2009 titled Beasts and Beloveds. Later that year he was invited to read at the Walking Words Festival in Telluride, Colorado, where he also took part in the Poetry in the Schools program at Telluride Middle School.
Tony went to Cambridge University and has a further degree and teaching credential from the University of London. In 2012 he began a year at the University of Wales doing a MA in Creative Writing. While there he had a poem published in the collection Poetry from Strata Florida, and was invited to present his poems at Writers’ Day at the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea. His MA dissertation was first published as a CD and later as the book of poems, Turning.
His first collection of poems Feathers Scattered in the Wind was published by Iconau in 2014. His collection of short stories, Transatlanecdotes, came out in 2020.
There’s a video and an audio recording of Tony reading his poems in the column on the left.