Mark Ford (poet)

For other people named Mark Ford, see Mark Ford (disambiguation).

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 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

1. ^ http://www.nybooks.com/authors/9737
2. ^ The Times (London). http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/tlskeywordsearch.tls?queryKeywords=mark+ford&x=0&y=0. 
3. ^ http://www.lrb.co.uk/contributors/mark-ford
4. ^ 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 9780877458814. http://books.google.com/?id=vVfmcEvHTkcC&pg=PA182&lpg=PA182&dq=John+Ashbery+and+Helen+Vendler+mark+ford&q=John%20Ashbery%20and%20Helen%20Vendler%20mark%20ford. 

External links

• Podcast Interview with Ford by André Naffis-Sahely

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