Wolfson Research Fellow publishes biography on silenced War Poet

Shadowed by the trauma of the first World War and mental illness, the poet spent his last fifteen years confined to a mental asylum. In the biography "Dweller in Shadows", Kennedy represents the life of this extraordinary and misunderstood artist. Kennedy was granted rare access to his unpublished manuscripts and is one of only a handful of people ever to have read them. Academics are currently hard at work enabling Oxford University Press to publish all the asylum poetry written by Gurney.