The Poems of Henry Kendall Author:Henry Kendall Henry Kendall was a 19th century Australian poet. When he was 15 he went to sea with one of his uncles and was away for about two years. Kendall spent much of his life in government jobs and struggled to make a living as a poet. The small village of Kendall on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales is named after him. The Poems of Henry Kend... more »all With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens includes the following. (i) The poems included in the three volumes published during the author's lifetime; (ii) Those not reprinted by Kendall, but included in the collected editions of 1886, 1890 and 1903; (iii) Early pieces not hitherto reprinted; (iv) Poems, now first printed, from the Kendall MSS. in the Mitchell Library.« less