Mark Ford (poet)

Mark Ford (poet)

Mark Ford (b. 1962 Nairobi, Kenya) is a British poet.

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Life

He went to school in London, and attended Oxford university and, as a Kennedy Scholar, Harvard university. He wrote his doctorate at Oxford University on the poetry of John Ashbery, and has published widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century American writing, including on Raymond Roussel. From 1991-1993 he was Visiting Lecturer at Kyoto University in Japan.

He is Professor of English in the Department of English Language and Literature at University College London.

He is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books,[1] Times Literary Supplement,[2] and the London Review of Books.[3]

Helen Vendler compared him with John Ashbery.[4]

Works

Poetry

  • Landlocked (Chatto & Windus, 1992; 1998)
  • Soft Sift (Faber & Faber, 2001/Harcourt Brace, 2003).
  • Six Children (Faber & Faber, 2011).

Prose

  • A Driftwood Altar (Waywiser Press, 2006).
  • Mr and Mrs Stevens and Other Essays (Peter Lang, 2011).

Anthologies

  • New Chatto Poets: Number Two (Chatto & Windus, 1989).

Biography

  • Raymond Roussel and the Republic of Dreams (Faber & Faber, 2001).

Translation

  • New Impressions of Africa (Princeton University Press, 2011).

Criticism

  • Something we have that they don't: British & American poetic relations since 1925 (University of Iowa Press, 2004).

References

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