Mark Ford (poet)
Mark Ford (b. 1962 Nairobi, Kenya) is a British poet.
Life
He went to school in London, and attended Oxford University and, as a Kennedy Scholar, Harvard University. He studied for 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).
- Selected Poems (Coffee House Press, 2014)
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).
- London: A History in Verse (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012).
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
- ↑ http://www.nybooks.com/authors/9737
- ↑ Asthana, Anushka. The Times (London) http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/tlskeywordsearch.tls?queryKeywords=mark+ford&x=0&y=0. Missing or empty
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- ↑ Mark Ford, Steven H. Clark, ed. (2004). "The Circulation of Large Smallnesses". Something we have that they don't: British & American poetic relations since 1925. University of Iowa Press. ISBN 978-0-87745-881-4.
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