Mark Ford

Mark Ford is the author of four collections of poetry: Landlocked (Chatto & Windus, 1992), Soft Sift (Faber & Faber, 2001), Six Children (Faber & Faber, 2011), and Enter, Fleeing (Faber & Faber, 2018). He has also published three monographs, Raymond Roussel and the Republic of Dreams (Faber & Faber, 2000), Thomas Hardy: Half a Londoner (Harvard University Press, 2016), and Woman Much Missed: Thomas Hardy, Emma Hardy, and Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2023). His essays have been collected in four volumes, the most recent of which is A Guest Among Stars: Essays on Twentieth-Century Poets (Black Spring, 2024). This Dialogue of One: Essays on Poets from John Donne to Joan Murray (Eyewear, 2014), was awarded the Poetry Foundation’s 2015 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism. Other publications include editions of the work of John Ashbery, Frank O’Hara, Mick Imlah, and Allen Ginsberg, and he also edited the 800-page anthology London: A History in Verse (Harvard University Press, 2012). He is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books and the New York Review of Books. A selection of his poetry is available at http://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/mark-ford; and an ongoing series of podcasts made with Seamus Perry about twentieth-century poets is available on the London Review of Books website https://www.lrb.co.uk.